The Conscience of the King (Signed Copy)

Stephen,Martin

ISBN 10: 0316860026 / ISBN 13: 9780316860024

Published by Little Brown, London, 2003

About this Item

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in blue cloth boards with bright silver title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-Jacket.(As New with No Faults) Not Price clipped (£16.99) showing to the front inner flap.This copy has been flat SIGNED by Martin Stephen to the title page.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning to spine.The book has lovely crisp white page edges.The dust-wrapper comes well protected in a cover sleeve.Great copy for the collector,8vo 310pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [2003].

Seller Inventory # 77722

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Conscience of the King (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Little Brown, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316860026
• ISBN 13: 9780316860024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

It is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed, the Puritan majority are gaining an increasing stranglehold over English society. Parliament is starting to flex its muscles against the King whose court drifts shamelessly towards decadence and corruption. And the great period of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has ended with the abrupt retreat from public life of William Shakespeare. Then Henry Gresham is asked by Cecil's protege, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, to trace a precious hand-written play manuscript that has gone missing, presumed stolen by a Cambridge bookseller. Gresham has no cause to realise that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I, a madman who was supposed to have died twenty years before, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of one of the greatest plays the world has ever seen.

About the Author

Martin Stephen is High Master of The Manchester Grammar School and author of 15 titles on English literature and military history. He is an experienced broadcaster and journalist who writes regularly for the broadsheets, the DAILY MAIL and the London EVENING STANDARD.