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Lisa Jardine.
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun.

Published London: HarperCollins, 2005.
Series: Making History.
ISBN 0007192576;
ISBN-13: 9780007192571.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 139x208x20mm.
Page count: 175pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is rather ruffled and scuffed, and an alternative sticker placed over the book’s own barcode; the book itself looks in generally good order, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £3.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 318g.

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Contents: How the Prince of Orange came to have a price on his head; Murder most foul; Miraculous escape; The wheel-lock pistol; English aftermath — "She is a chief mark they shoot at" [Elizabeth I] — Pistols & politics; Finale.
Appendices: Proclamation & edict against William of Orange; Letters which the Prince of Orange sent the Kings & Potentates of Christendom; True Report of the Lamentable Death, by Balthazar Serack; Edmund Neville’s testimony against William Parry; Proclamation against the common use of dags, handguns, etc…

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 14, monochrome
Maps & plans: 1
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes 

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