The Princes in the Tower — Folio Society Edition | 1999 | Alison Weir | Fine | Slipcase

One of English history's most enduring murder mysteries — and one of the Folio Society's most dramatically designed volumes.

The Princes in the Tower refers to the apparent murder in the 1480s of the deposed King Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York — children, and the only surviving sons of King Edward IV. Their fate has been among history's great enigmas for five centuries. Alison Weir, one of Britain's most respected popular historians, brings the full weight of contemporary evidence and modern scholarship to bear on the question that has never quite been answered: did Richard III really do it — and if not, who did?

This Folio Society edition, published in London in 1999, features illustrated black boards with gilt lettering and a striking gilt and red graphic, a foreword by Ruth Rendell, Lancaster and York genealogical trees on the endpapers, and 22 colour plates on six unpaged leaves.  The cover illustration by Francis Mosley — a stark, graphic tower arch in black, white and red — is one of the Folio Society's more memorable designs of the period, striking and immediately recognisable on any shelf. The spine lettering is in Mosley's characteristic medieval-influenced hand.

Condition: Fine throughout. The book is entirely free from marks, inscriptions or wear of any kind — an unread copy in every respect. The boards are crisp, the gilt lettering bright and the binding firm. The black companion slipcase is in like condition — no shelf wear, no marking, no fading. A genuinely fine example of a copy that has been very carefully kept.

About this edition: This is the first Folio Society edition of Weir's text, which was originally published by The Bodley Head in 1992. Described in the trade as "first thus" — the first appearance of this text in this particular and very handsome form. A fine copy in a fine slipcase is increasingly the standard collectors expect, and this one delivers on both counts.

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