Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Frederic Leighton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Burne-Jones. Gilles de Rais, the marshal of France who fought beside Joan of Arc and was hanged in 1440 for the murder of children, set against the folk tale that grew out of him. Wilson was a Smithsonian curator and treats it as evidence rather than legend. This 58 plates after Doré, Delacroix, Delaroche and Turner, plus two restored and coloured illustrations.