Frederick the Great.
Mitford, Nancy.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Date Published: 1970.
Description: FIRST EDITION. 304 pages with index and bibliography. Includes numerous color and black & white photos and illustrations. Black cloth boards with silver embossed letter and illustration on cover. The book is in VERY GOOD condition with bumpe to bottom and top front edge and owners signature to ffep. The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with edgewear. NOT price-clipped and NOT remaindered. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: "After her enormously succcessful biography studies of The Sun King and Madame de Pompadour, Nancy Mitford now turns to one of the most fascinating and complex figures of the fascinating and complex mid-eighteenth century: Frederick the Great. He is her favorite among her biographical subjects, and her enthusiam for the Prussian king and his world is evident throughout this lively, illuminating and often moving reocrd of his life. Frederick was not merely a brilliant military strategist and statesman, but also a scholar, musician and patron of the arts. With her characteristic wit and humor, Miss Mitford presents the known facts of his life objectively, including his homosexuality, drawing almost all her material from contemporary resources. She describes Frederick's dreadful childhood, his years of solitary study at Rheinsberg, his relationships with his friends, who were nearly all Frenchmen, pre-eminently Voltaire, and with the members of his large and interesting family. She races through his military campaigns, giving the salient facts of highly picturesque battles, and she unravels his complicated diplomacy, conducted with deplorable bad faith, which led eventually to a united Germany dominated by Prussia. As always she aims at a brilliant sketch of the personality rather than a full-length oil painting, and she also tries to present Frederick in the context of his own environment. Frederick the Great is a bizarre personage who lends himself to this treatment, and Miss Mitford's account of him may well be considered her best book yet. The books illustrated with 48 superb color plates, including specially commissioned photographs of the rococo splender of Frederick's palaces. Numerous monochrome illustrations complement the text and include much hitherto unpublished material from sources in Eastern Europe."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
ISBN: 0060129867
Book Id: 9737
Price: $21.75
