{"product_id":"the-black-tulip-by-alexandre-dumas-collins-1","title":"The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - Collins","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: The Black Tulip\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Alexandre Dumas\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Collins\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: Undated\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eCondition: This book is in good condition for its age with tanned pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003eOn the 20th of August 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim, that one might believe every day to be sunday; with its shady park, with it’s tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses; with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected; the city of the Hague, the capital of the seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buitenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder, preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius De Witte, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55752540520827,"sku":"10582020","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/files\/orig_490299_jpg.jpg?v=1758203364","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/the-black-tulip-by-alexandre-dumas-collins-1","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}