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Volume II only of a two volume set. ***First impression of the first edition. With a black and white engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece showing: 'Queen Editha'. ***Very good in red blind embossed cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Spine slightly faded and discoloured. Pages clean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***222 mm x 144mm. x prelims-pages including contents plus 397 pages plus three pages of publisher's advert to the rear. ***Contents of this Volume: Ostrida and Werburga, Queens of Ethelred and Ceolred; Quenburga, Quenswitha, and Alfleda, Queens of Alfred, Penda, and Peada; Hereswytha, Sexburga, Etheldreda, Ermenburga, and Ermenilda, Queens of Anna, Ercrombert, Egfrid, and Wulphere; Domneva, Queen of Merowald; Ethelburga and Fridogitha, Queen of Ina and Ethelard; Quendrida-Petronilla, Queen of Offa "the Proud"; Eadburga and Elfleda, Queens of Bertric and Wimond; Osburga and Ethelswytha, Queens of Ethelwulf and Burhred; Judith of France, Second Queen of Ethelwulf; Elswitha, Queen of Alfred the Great, and Ethelfleda, "Lady of Mercia"; Egwina, Elfeda, Edgifa, and Elfgifa, Queens of Edward "the Elder" and Edmond "the Pious"; Ethelgiva, Queen of Edwy "the Fair"; Elfrida, Queen of Edgar "the Peaceable"; Emma of Normandy, Surnamed "The Pearl"; Editha "The Good, " Queen of Edward "the Confessor"; Editha "The Fair", Queen of Harold II. *** ---a solemn procession of clergy and people pass by her window to honour his funeral, she took up her Psalter, and read, as it were, against him the imprecation of the 108th psalm, in which, when she had proceeded as far as that verse, "This is the work of them who defame me to the Lord, and who speak evil against my Soul," her eyes suddenly fell out of her head upon the very verse she was reading, and stained the book with her blood. Quendrida's primer was kept, for a testimony of this miracle, in the Abbey of Winchcomb, till the dissolution of that house, it still retaining the marks of her blood." ***Not long after the Abbess-Queen expired most wretchedly, and her body, unhonoured by funeral pomp, was cast forth, to use the words of the legend, "into a foul mere:" and who is there that reads the record of Quendrida's crimes and their deserved punishment, but must regard the death of the young Kenelm as enviable in comparison, and perceive that, even on this Earth, there is a retributive justice awarded to the guilty!' (Quote from page 117, Quendrida the Second). ***First impression of the true first edition of volume II only of 'The Queens Before the Conquest'. ***Of interest to social historians studying Anglo-Saxon history. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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