The Princes in the Tower
by Elizabeth Jenkins
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0241898757
- ISBN 13
- 9780241898758
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: BCA. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. Hard Cover. 8vo 0241898757 Reprint by BCA, London. Dust jacket complete. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's small ownership label on ffep. Illustrations. xi, 238 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm. The spectacle of the cruel, hunchbacked king, Richard III, ending once and for all the menacing existence of his brother's two sons by committing an abhorrent crime is one of the most fearful and enduring moments in English history. Elizabeth Jenkins does not pretend that Richard was innocent of the murder of the two young princes but she presents the crime more as a serious blunder than the action of a thorough-paced criminal, and thus all the more alarming. Paying scrupulous attention to the period, Elizabeth Jenkins assesses the influence of the savage struggle of York and Lancaster for the crown, the fatal breach in the family bond caused by Edward IV's execution of his brother, the Duke of Clarence, and the wide-spread unpopularity of his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. In 1674 Charles II gave orders that workmen at the Tower of London should clear the White Tower of "all contiguous buildings". .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142634
- Title
- The Princes in the Tower
- Author
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241898757
- ISBN 13
- 9780241898758
- Publisher
- BCA
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...