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Caskoden, Edwin (Charles Major).

WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth. Rewritten and Rendered into Modern English from Sir Edwin Caskoden's Memoir.

Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis:, 1898

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Year of publication
1898
Author
Caskoden, Edwin (Charles Major).
Publishers
Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis:
Keyword
PUBLISHERS BINDINGS FICTION ENGLISH, GREAT BRITAIN ILLUSTRATED 1898., BINDINGS FICTION ILLUSTRATED
Binding description
H Hardcover
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover

Description

pp. (vii), 295. +Plus 13 leaves of plates including frontis. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full green cloth binding decorated in gilt green and white. Cover depicts a castle with gilt sky. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and green. Cover gilt is bright. White slighty soiled. Corners bumped. Spine slighty rubbed. Contents clean. Binding tight. Hardbound. Very Good+. Charles Major (1856-1913) was an American lawyer and novelist. in 1898, he published his first novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower under the pseudonym Edwin Caskoden. The novel about England during the reign of King Henry VIII was an exhaustively researched historical romance, and became enormously popular, holding a place on bestselling book lists for nearly three years. The novel was adapted into a popular Broadway play by Paul Kester in 1901, and also launched relatively successful film adaptations in 1908 and 1922. NW59