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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. University of London, The Athlone Press, Published 1961. Hardcover, x, 423 pp.; 23 cm; second printing (offset-litho reprint, 1964); with frontispiece portrait of Sir John Neale and six black-and-white plates. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Mild surface and edge wear to the boards. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and address stamped on the top edge of the textblock; otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. The bright red dust jacket has a few nicks and tears each one-half inch or less, mild creasing to the edges, and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A festschrift of thirteen essays in Tudor political and social history, presented to Professor Sir John Neale (1890-1975) on his seventieth birthday by colleagues and former students. Neale, Astor Professor of English History at University College London (1927-1956), is best remembered for his biography Queen Elizabeth I and his volumes on the Elizabethan parliaments. Topics include economic experiments of Elizabeth's early years, social structure and government, propaganda, Elizabethan strategy, the relations between the four British peoples, and the succession struggle. Includes a bibliography of Sir John Neale's writings (compiled by Helen Miller) and a full index.Contents: I. In Search of the Queen by C. H. Williams; II. William Cecil and Elizabethan Public Relations by Conyers Read; III. The Making of the Statute of Artificers by S. T. Bindoff; IV. Place and Patronage in Elizabethan Politics by W. T. MacCaffrey; V. John Field and Elizabethan Puritanism by Patrick Collinson; VI. The Elizabethan Merchants of Exeter by W. G. Hoskins; VII. Touching the Writ of Latitat: An Act 'of no great moment' by Marjorie Blatcher; VIII. The Elizabethan Exchequer: War in the Receipt by G. R. Elton; IX. Mr Myddelton the Merchant of Tower Street by A. H. Dodd; X. Foundations of Anglo-Scottish Union by Gordon Donaldson; XI. Ireland, Elizabeth I and the Counter-Reformation by R. Dudley Edwards; XII. Elizabethan War Aims and Strategy by R. B. Wernham; XIII. The Succession Struggle in Late Elizabethan England by J. Hurstfield; The Historical Writings of Sir John Neale; Index.