William Gilbert — Lucrezia Borgia

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, two volume and ground breaking biography of the infamous Lucrezia Borgia. The scarce two volume first edition of this biography of Lucrezia Borgia. Featuring an illustrated portrait frontispiece to volume I, and containing "rare and unpublished documents". This is English writer and Royal Navy Surgeon William Gilbert"s most famous work. He wrote a considerable number of novels, biographies, histories, and popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. In this work, Gilbert concluded, after extensive research, that there was no evidence of the acts of gross immorality of which Borgia was accused, including murder and poisoning. With a sixteen page publisher"s catalogue to the rear of volume II. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. Generally smart. Small marks to front board of volume II. Bumping to spine heads and tails. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to frontispiece, pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .