HENRIETTA MARIA. Piety, Politics and Patronage.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 37 black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh with just a little rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, a little marked to the inner hinges (from the binder's glue), are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

'This richly illustrated book follows Henrietta Maria through and beyond the Bourbon and Stuart courts to chart her patronage and engagement with the visual arts, building works, and the luxury trade. It develops a powerful picture not just of the images, fashions, interiors, and buildings shaped by the queen's directorial influence but also of the political and religious factors that governed her choices and policies of court display. [...] Erin Giffrey analyzes the full spectacle of the queen's represented image, not only through the well-known portraits by Sir Anthony van Dyck but also through her rich bed ensembles, tapestries, jewelry, clothing, and devotional goods - the objects that embodied and conveyed her royal power' (publisher's blurb).