Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough. The last months of Katharine Howard, fifth wife of Henry the Eighth, closing the trilogy Ford began with The Fifth Queen. Conrad, who collaborated with him on other books, called the trilogy the swan-song of historical romance. This edition is bound with fifty-six plates of painting, among them works by Edvard Munch, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Livesay, dating from 1728 to 1903.
