Complete and unabridged, with 40 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Niels H. Christiansen and Thomas Rowlandson. An Englishman of Spanish descent pursues his mother's murderer to Mexico and arrives in time for the conquest, marrying Montezuma's daughter on the way. Haggard read Prescott closely and the fall of Tenochtitlan here is done from the chronicles. This edition carries a gallery of 40 plates bound with the text, among them paintings by Munch, Carpaccio and Titian, alongside 20 illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.