Peter Ackroyd — The Clerkenwell Tales
London, Chatto and Windus, 2003. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed copy of this truly immersive historical gothic novel set during the Lollard movement of the late 1390s. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.The Clerkenwell Tales is a historical novel set in the late 1390s, following the Lollard movement led by Dominus (a secret society of religious fundamentalists) and on a conspiracy against Richard II of England. From prolific English novelist and critic Peter Ackroyd. His specialist novels about English history and culture and his biographies of figures such as William Blake, Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot, earned him the Somerset Maugham Award. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is also excellent with minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
