1978 The Great Enterprise: The History of the Spanish Armada

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty images across twenty-two plates, with illustrated endpapers. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive history of the Spanish Armada, a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, ordered to sail up the English Channel and escort an invasion force that would land in England and overthrow Elizabeth I. With chapters on the Scottish pawn, the Catholic cause, provocation, plans and preparations, victory and defeat. Edited by Stephen Usherwood, a British historian and author.