The black tulip / Alexandre Dumas.

[New ed.] / edited with an introduction and notes by David Coward.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xxx, 258 p. ; 20 cm.

This ed. of this translation originally published: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the French.

Set at the height of the 'tulipomania' that gripped Holland in the 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulipa negra.

9780199540464 (pbk)

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