MY MERRY ROCKHURST: SOME EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF VISCOUNT ROCKHURST, A FRIEND OF THE KING AT ONE TIME CONSTABLE OF HIS MAJESTY'S TOWER

by Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle

$85 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. Octavo, inserted plate at frontispiece with a full-color illustration by W. Dacres Adams, original red cloth. First edition. Eight short stories set during the plague period of England's Charles II. Romantic historical fiction. Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales 1911 , p. 323 marked with an asterisk as a book of special worth .

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