The Tower of London by A. L. Rowse

The Tower of London

In the History of The Nation

by A. L. Rowse

Book Club Associates, 1973, colour and black and white photographs throughout, photographic end-papers, photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, tape residue on front end-paper, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges (see photographs)

"The Tower of London is a unique historic institution: royal place, fortress, and state prison, besides being the original Record Office and Zoo.  There is no institution in the world quite comparable.
But it also offers a mirror in which much of English history may be seen - not only the executions of famous personages, but coronation processions, comic episodes like Colonel Blood's attempt to steal the Crown and Crown Jewels; Mr Pepys and Sir Robert Walpole holding a levee of their friends; much entertaining; escapes over the walls and across the moat or like the Jacobite Lord in his wife's clothing."