The Mad King : A Biography of the Ludwig II of Bavaria

xiii, 346pp, with sections of black and white plate illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine (boards very slightly rounded at corners; internally neat, clean, bright and tight). In its original illustrated and laminated dust jacket (a little bumped on edges, rounded at corners). An insightful and sympathetic biography of one of the most romantic and tragic European monarchs of modern times. A golden youth but an intemperate ruler, Lugwig changed the course of European history almost against his will. Volume published a year earlier in the USA.