The Conscience of the King - first UK edition

by Martin Stephen - signed

It is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Henry Gresham is asked by Cecil's protégé, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, to trace a precious hand-written play manuscript that has gone missing, presumed stolen by a Cambridge bookseller. Gresham has no cause to realize that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I, a madman who was supposed to have died twenty years before, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of one of the greatest plays the world has ever seen...

Book has blue boards with the title in silver on the spine. Ornamented end papers. Signed by the author on the title page.

Jacket is fine, price intact at £16.99, protected.