New; 1995 stated First American edition, first printing partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. ; 9.5 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 384 pages; Seward evokes, in this history of the Wars of the Roses, the fascinating tumultuous era of England's first revolution and most bloodthirsty period. The five people Seward depcits are William Hastings, a Yorkistsoldier and courtier; Jon de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the head of one of England's most ancient noble families, Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII, John Morton, priest-lawyer and political genius, and Jane Shore, daughter of a London merchant.