London: Harper Collins. Signed by the author underneath her printed name on the title page. No faults, an unread copy. Novel set in Fifteenth Century France, author's fourth book.Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Fine. Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. 2003.

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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.

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Bookseller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005607
Title: The Lady and the Unicorn
Author: Chevalier, Tracy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10: 0007140908
ISBN 13: 9780007140909
Publisher: Harper Collins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2003
Size: 9" x 5.5".
Keywords: FICTION, HISTORICAL NOVEL

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