The Elizabethan Journals Volume II Being a Record of Those Things Most Talked of During the Years 1598-1603 de Harrison, G.B - 1965

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965. Paperback. Square, tight binding, no creasing to spine, sharp tips. Interior clean and bright. Appears unread. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 463 pages; 4 x 7 inches. This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world picture. The volumes together vividly convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare; King James; the first voyage to the West Indies; the Great Plague of 1603; the Gunpowder Plot; the Civil War, and the first impact of Galileo's discoveries. In compiling these volumes, Harrison undertook a massive trawl of original sources of British social and political history of the period. Each journal contains a chronology of key events of the period, unfolding as they would for contemporaries. This volume covers the years 1598-1603.