In Kings' Byways - first U.S. edition

by Stanley J. Weyman

A scarce collection of a dozen short stories of old France, the majority set in the late 1500s to early 1600s, chronicling the struggles of the League & the Huguenots, Cardinal Mazarin, the Duke of Guise, Henry of Navarre, & other historical figures. The collection is divided into three sections. Part One has seven tales : "Flore" "Crillion's Stake" "For the Cause" "The King's Stratagem" "The House on the Wall" "Hunt the Owler" & "The Two Pages," of which "For the Cause" was declared by The New York World to be the best thing Weymen had yet written. Part II, The Diary of a Statesman, consists of a long prefacing tale & three related episodes: "Episode of the Fowl in the Pot" "Episode of the Boxwood Fire" & "Episode of the Snowfall." Part Three, called King Terror and set in the late 1700s, has two tales, "A Daughter of the Gironde" & "In the Name of the Law.

Book is in very good plus condition, tight, little edge wear, dark green cloth with a silhouette of a green hillside, black castle, and orange and green sky. Gold lettering on front and spine.  No dust jacket. Tissued frontispiece by George Varian. A nice copy.