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"A Rake And His Times George Villiers 2nd Duke Of Buckingham" 1954 WILSON, John Harold
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WILSON, John Harold
[280] pp.
Farrar, Straus and Young
1954
8 1/2" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by Mircea Vasiliu
Personal & up close biography from the Restoration time period. The duke's roller coaster life, court intrigue & sex scandals, duels, war and politics. Buckingham was a rogue, yet an advocate of religious freedom in a time when that opinion could be considered treason.