Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Joseph Vernet, Gustave Courbet and Louis-Philippe Crépin. The apprenticeship of the squire who becomes Sir Nigel Loring, in the France of the Hundred Years War - a prequel to The White Company written fifteen years later. Doyle thought his historical novels his best work and was irritated all his life that readers wanted Holmes instead. This edition is bound with a gallery of 57 plates, among them paintings by Édouard Detaille, Joseph Vernet and Baron Lejeune.