UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial subject illustrated upper wrap with black+gold woodcut illustrated rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with some miniscule foxing/spotting; fore-edges lightly and sporadically spotted/ foxed - less so than the top edge - but generally bright and clean. Contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered - apart from lightly bumped top, upper board's corner,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain,dark green endpapers.UK,thickish 8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,xi+1-434pp [paginated] includes list of illustrations,33 chapters,16pp b/w+colour contemporary illus/plates in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp148/9 (all b/w) and pp276/7 (majority colour - and 3 in b/w),source notes/biblio,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication, contents list/table,acknowledgements,and last page of index unpaginated. Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history,but his life and career bear little resemblance to the myth of the saint or of the 'man for all ...

ISBN10: 1856197115, ISBN13: 9781856197113, [publisher: Chatto & Windus, London] Hardcover First Edition This is a Mint Copy (AS NEW) Signed by Peter Ackroyd at Waterstone's in Manchester.The book is still in the publisher's shrink-wrap so it's unopened.8vo First Edition 1st Impression [1998]
[Old Langho, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]
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