When Knighthood Was in Flower: The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor

Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill Company, 1899. Nintieth thousand. Octavo (20cm). Original green cloth, stamped in gilt, white, and blue, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; [xiv],249,[15]pp; 14pp publisher's catalogue at rear; 16 plates. 1899 ownership inscription to f.f.e.p., dated from Mexico City. Signed binding, monogrammed FCH. Straight, lightly cocked and rubbed, but unfaded, internally clean: Very Good.

A late 1890s bestseller, and basis for the 1922 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring William Powell, and the 1953 Disney film The Sword and the Rosedirected by Ken Annakin.