"An Enemy to the King" from the Recently Discovered Memoirs of Sieur de la Tournoire, by Robert Neilson Stephens, illustrated by H. DeM. Young, published by L.C. Page, Boston; First Edition, second printing issued in the same year. '1897' is imprinted on bottom of the title page, copyright 1897 and 'Seventeenth Thousand' on the copyright page.

Hard boards, original gray cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, silvery knight on the front board [darker spots on spine: see photo]; stamp of John Griff Edwards on the front endpaper and '1st chapter' page; 5.1/4" x 7.3/4"; frontispiece with tissue guard + 9 plates on glossy paper [some yellow staining on plates and the pages next to the plates; 459 pages and 8 pages of publisher's ads, a little soiling and wear, very good condition.

"This Renaissance adventure has the same qualities as an Alexandre Dumas novel and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys swashbuckling adventure tales." [from a review]

Sieur de la Tournoire visits Paris. As a 21-year old Huguenot, he anticipates that he will not be welcomed with open arms by the court of Henry III. Nonetheless, he manages to join the French Guard. De la Tournoire is interested in Mlle. D'Arency, who asks him to kill De Noyard for her. Naturally he refuses. Mlle. D'Arency conspires with Queen Catherine De Medici to trick him into doing her bidding. This makes an enemy of the Duke of Guise, so de la Tournoire is inadvertently caught up in the queen's conspiracy. The King's sister, Marguerite, hides him from Catherine's machinations by sending him on a mission to her husband, Henri of Navarre. Henri makes him a Captain of his guards, where he flourishes. His adventures include assisting Mlle. De Varion in rescuing her father--her father was imprisoned for sheltering Huguenots.

Provenance:

From the library of John Griff Edwards, Portsmouth, Virginia.

John Griff Edwards (1870-1912) belonged to the old established settler family in Virginia. His father and uncles served in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. The grandfather, LeRoy Griffin Edwards (1804-1866), was the president of the Virginia Convention of 1864. John's wife, Mrs. J. Griff Edwards founded and led the first of the United Confederate Choirs of America (1907). After that she was elected the 'Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Choirs'. In 1911 she published a volume titled "Echoes From Dixie A Collection of Songs Used in the South."

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