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The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650 1744 [Buy it!] | Christopher Hibbert | USD 22.83 (Sun May 26 13:56:53 2024) | Biblio | powellbooksofsomerset.co.uk | UK: Viking, Date: 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾' tall. This book both traces the career of one of the eighteenth century's most intriguing and gifted men and, as a duel biography, provides a convincing portrait of his wife, the outrageous, quarrelsome, amusing and ultimately endearing Sarah, who became so inordinately rich and who, after her husband's death, bought to a triumphant conclusion that great memorial to his achievements, Sir John Vambrugh's masterpiece, Blenheim Palace. The d/w as been priced clipped.. 2001. Viking ISBN 0670886777 9780670886777 [GB] |