"Hot Plowshares" is the final volume in a series of "historical novels" by author Albion Winegar Tourgée (18381905), though the author indicates that chronologically, this would be listed as the first, with the sequence being:
Hot Plowshares
Figs and Thistles
A Royal Gentleman (a.k.a "Toinette")
A Fools Errand
Bricks Without Straw
John Eax
Copyright 1882 by Albion Winegar Tourgée, author. Illustrations by A. B. Frost.
Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1883 printed edition.