The Tower of London by A. L. Rowse
The Tower of London by A. L. Rowse
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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."
