The Valois tapestries

Contents: pt. I. The Making of the Tapestries. 1. The Caron Designs and their Alteration in the Tapestries -- 2. The French Portraits -- 3. Costume and Topography -- 4. Lucas de Heere -- 5. Lucas de Heere leads to William of Orange -- 6. Antwerp under Anjou -- pt. II. The Festivals 1. Festivals of the Reign of Charles IX -- The Fontainebleau Festivals, 1564 -- The Bayonne Festivals, 1565 -- Festivals at the Wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henry of Navarre, 1572 -- The Festivals for the Polish Ambassadors, 1573 -- 2. Henri's Journey -- 3. Festivals of the Reign of Henri III: The Magnificences for the Lorraine-Joyeuse Wedding of 1581 -- 4. Festivals for Anjou in England and the Netherlands, 1581-2 -- French Designs behind the two Anjou Tapestries -- The Barriers at Whitehall on New Year's Day, 1582 -- Anjou's Entry into Antwerp in February, 1582 -- 5. A Lost Moment in History: Its Record in the Tapestries -- pt. III. The Sequel. 1. The Collapse of the World of the Tapestries -- 2. The Tapestries go to Florence. xxvii, 150 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. Second edition. Blue cloth boards, price-clipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, damp staining to bottom edge of cloth and verso of dust jacket, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.