[nopardons]

I have a first edition ( hard cover ) of the Weir book and looked at it, as I described it.

The book by Williamson, that I have and described, is a trade paperback.

I love history; just not all of it. This is just one of the eras/subjects that I'm crazy about, so I've read lots of books about it, both fiction and nonfiction.

[AnAmericanMother]

You sure picked a period that doesn't have much hard documentation! Not much in the way of history or correspondence has survived from that

(That's part of the reason for all the debate over the Wars of the Roses and Richard III.)

Here's the cover I remember, library edition in the local Cobb County library: