THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE; The Biography
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1998. Photographs by & about Wm Shakespeare. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo (146 x 235mm), black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over apricot boards, profusely illustrated with pictorial title page plus many full-color & B&W glossy plates, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with an image of Shakespeare & The Globe, red endpapers, 464 pages. Weight: ~ 2lbs. Like New / Very Fine. Item #9492
ISBN: 9780385477093
EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTIBLE CONDITION! A major biography of William Shakespeare by brilliant Peter Ackroyd. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.--Wikipedia.
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