Buy this book on-line SANSOM**, C. J: : RevelationLONDON.MACMILLAN,2008. ISBN 9781405092722.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean, wrap-around,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj as the boards/covers with brass clasps,of an antique book,with capitalised,white lettered author name,other white lettered Colin Dexter 'quote' and calligraphic bronze gilt lettered title to front panel of dw/dj,similarly coloured+lettered author+title to spine/ backstrip along with publisher's colophon to foot of same,rear panel with critics' white lettered reviews of bronze lettered titles of the other three preceding titles from the series. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-earr eading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronze gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate coloured historical/contemporary London map with key,illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-549pp [paginated] includes 46 chapters and an Epilogue;a Historical Note; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a title separator page with blank verso,a b/w map+key of Westminster,1543 also with blank verso,and as the last page,author's acknowledgements.
The 4th title in the Matthew Shardlake series,preceded by 'DISSOLUTION','DARK FIRE', and 'SOVEREIGN'.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary copy for its exemplary cleanliness and brightness.
Spring 1543.
King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife.But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly,for Lady Catherine is known to share their reformist sympathies.
Matthew Shardlake,meanwhile,is working on the case of a teenage boy,a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam Hospital for the insane.Should he be released as his parents want,when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic?
When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow,for whom he has long had complicated feelings,to bring the killer to justice.His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam but with Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation.
As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants, Shardlake,together with his assistant Jack Barak and his friend Guy Malton,follows the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them all to the core,and which are already igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession.
For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer . . ?
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