Kings & Queens of England & Scotland

by Allen Andrews

Book Overview

184pages. in4. cartonné jaquette. Nombreuses photos en noir et en couleurs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814806546
• ISBN13: 9780814806548
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Leon Amiel Publisher
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent thumbnail sketch of the Kings and Queens

I should have known that I was destined to be a historian, given that this was my childhood picture book. My mother's copy is dogeared and threadbare and beloved. The scholarship is not necessarily the highest, and some of the illustrations are over-romanticised Victorian engravings, but it gives an excellent thumbnail sketch of every ruler of England from Edgbert (giving it a leg-up on many other survays, which begin with William the Conqueror or, if they are better, Edward the Confessor) to Elizabeth II, listing birth date and place, marriage(s), children (legitmate and illegitamate), date, cause and place of death, and place of burial, with a essay ranging from two paragraphs to two pages, depending on the importance of the ruler.It also gives the same information for all the rulers of Scotland, and information, although not as complete, for the native princes of Wales. Not authoritative, but filled with a great deal of basic information, and illustrations of places and tomb monuments.