CATHERINE THE GREAT
Written by Simon Dixon
Published by Profile Books Ltd.
in 2009
ISBN: 9781861977229
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Written by Simon Dixon.
Stock no. 1831344
1st.
2009.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
More than a conventional biography, this is a full history of her rule and use of power. It shows how Catherine conceived of her power and how she represented it to her subjects, as well as how she wielded this power. Catherine's life and reign are a prism through which the culture and politics of her age are viewed. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w and colour plates. xv and 432 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861977229. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block. A few pale foxspots, mainly to prelims. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed.