APPRENTICE: A historical novel

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Richard E. Early received his education at two quaker schools and at Pembroke College, Oxford. His adult life has been spent, like those of his forebears as a blanket maker in Witney, Oxford shire and, during the latter years of his life he was Chairman of the company. During the Second World War he served as a Quaker in the Friends' Ambulance Unit and became a prisoner-of-war. This book is a novelisation of the life of the author's forebear Thomas Early who was apprenticed to the trade of blanket weaving in Witney, Oxfordshire in 1669. This dedicated copy has been signed by the author on the obverse of the f.e.p. Ref HH 5.…