Gallows Thief - first UK edition

by Bernard Cornwell - signed

Charles Corday, a portrait painter, has only seven days to live. He has been found guilty of the murder of a Countess whom he was painting. His hanging is imminent. When Rider Sandman begins his investigations, he finds more information than he needs, form the stinking depths of Newgate to the perfumed drawing rooms of the aristocracy.

Book has cranberry-red boards with gold stamped spine. Signed by author on the half title page. Nice maps of contemporary London illustrates the endpapers. Fine. 

Jacket is also fine, unclipped, always protected.