A glorious addition to any booklover's collection, and especially apt for historians. The text is set in Minion on cream Caxton Wove paper, with russet endpapers overprinted with a genealogical table of the Lancaster York families, by Reginald Piggott, showing their connections and the disputed lines of Royal descent. The front board is over printed with the Mosley illustration in black, blood red and bright gilt. The cover boards are cloth bound with 'blackletter' gold blocked title to the spine. Alison eir delves into the history and machinations of what records and suppositions have told us, alongside 22 historical colour illustrations. This is an enduring story of mystery and intrigue, a crime that has never been solved. The foreward is by mystery novelist Ruth Rendell and the especially commissioned cover illustration by Francis Mosley. The accompanying original slipcase, in black board, has barely noticeable shelf wear. The book is in fine condition with no annotations, inscriptions or turn backs. In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines. An unread copy of Alison Weir's Folio Society edition of 'The Princes in the Tower', second printing (2001). It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. Weir carefully considers alternative theories about the brothers' deaths, but argues convincingly that More had the best access to evidence and the least reason to lie. The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother. Weir relies heavily on Sir Thomas More's History of King Richard III (written 1514-1518 and upon which William Shakespeare based his play) to conclude that Richard had his nephews murdered in the tower sometime after his coronation. Alison Weir - Richard III And The Princes In The Tower. In a breathtaking chain of sinister events, Richard had Edward V and his brother confined to the Tower of London, declared his nephew's accession to the throne invalid and proclaimed himself king in June of 1483. In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines all the evidence - including that against the Princes' uncle, Richard III, whose body was recently discovered beneath a Leicester car park.
Upon the death of their father, King Edward IV, in 1483, the brothers' uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was named Edward V's guardian. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. In this carefully researched and absorbing work of scholarship, Weir ( The Six Wives of Henry VIII ) investigates the events surrounding the disappearance in 1483 of England's 12-year-old King Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York. A masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old.
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