ELIZABETH R by Roy Strong & Julia Trevelyan Oman (First Edition Hardback) 1971

 ELIZABETH R by Roy Strong & Julia Trevelyan Oman.

Dr Roy Strong, Director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the world's foremost authority on Elizabethian portraiture, and Julia Trevelyan Oman, the internartional renowned stage and film designer, have collaborated to produce a unique study of the real face of Queen Elizabeth the First.

In a pattern of words and images the personal life of Elizabeth I is evoked, her appearance, her dresses and jewels, the decoration of her palaces, the momentum of her day-to-day life, whether it be the opening of parliament, enjoying a picnic or penning a letter to a friend. The world of the great issues of state is deliberately made subservient to that of domestic detail, which has always made up the larger part of the fabric of life of any great person.

With wit, invention, and inrense sympathy for their tragic bit magnificent heroine, Dr Strong and Miss Oman have produced a unique volume of homage to one of the greatest and most fascinating women of all time.

A FIRST EDITION hardback published in 1971 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd