The Wolf Hall Trilogy [Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light]
MANTEL, Hilary
The Wolf Hall Trilogy [Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light]
London: Fourth Estate, 2009-2020
Large 8vos., black and blue pictorial boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; Vol III with lion device to spine; unclipped pictorial dustwrappers, each featuring a photograph of the author to the lower flap; Vols I and II featuring cover designs by Andy Bridge; decorative endpapers; final volume with black ribbon marker; pp. [vi], vii-xvii, [iii], 3-653, [i]; [viii], ix-xiii, [vii], 3-411, [iii]; [x], ix-xiv, [vi], 3-883, [xi]; complete with diagrams of family trees; near-fine copies all, light bruising to spine tips and mild creasing to jackets the only defects.
First editions, all signed by the author. Wolf Hall in the correct 1st issue jacket, with just the Dianna Athill review to the lower panel, with cut signature pasted to title page; Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light both flat signed, with circular ‘signed by the author’ stickers to the upper panels; the final volume the special signed limited, with additional tipped-in title page.
Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, which begins in 1520, the plot set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil. With Henry VIII seeking to divorce his wife in favour of Anne Boleyn, the story begins with the arrival of Thomas Cromwell; a man of vision and ambition, who seeks to help the King achieve his ultimate goal. Over almost 2000 pages, Mantel follows the life of this pivotal figure in British history, as he navigates the peaks and troughs of the court under a volatile King. Mantel reputedly spent five years researching before she began writing the first book, in an attempt to marry fact with historical fiction.
Now widely regarded as her most important works, Mantel referred to the trilogy herself as a “long project, with its flickering patterns of light and dark, its mirrors and shadows. What I wanted to create is a story that reflects but never repeats, a sense of history listening and talking to itself.”
MANTEL, Hilary
The Wolf Hall Trilogy [Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light]
London: Fourth Estate, 2009-2020
Large 8vos., black and blue pictorial boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; Vol III with lion device to spine; unclipped pictorial dustwrappers, each featuring a photograph of the author to the lower flap; Vols I and II featuring cover designs by Andy Bridge; decorative endpapers; final volume with black ribbon marker; pp. [vi], vii-xvii, [iii], 3-653, [i]; [viii], ix-xiii, [vii], 3-411, [iii]; [x], ix-xiv, [vi], 3-883, [xi]; complete with diagrams of family trees; near-fine copies all, light bruising to spine tips and mild creasing to jackets the only defects.
First editions, all signed by the author. Wolf Hall in the correct 1st issue jacket, with just the Dianna Athill review to the lower panel, with cut signature pasted to title page; Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light both flat signed, with circular ‘signed by the author’ stickers to the upper panels; the final volume the special signed limited, with additional tipped-in title page.
Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, which begins in 1520, the plot set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil. With Henry VIII seeking to divorce his wife in favour of Anne Boleyn, the story begins with the arrival of Thomas Cromwell; a man of vision and ambition, who seeks to help the King achieve his ultimate goal. Over almost 2000 pages, Mantel follows the life of this pivotal figure in British history, as he navigates the peaks and troughs of the court under a volatile King. Mantel reputedly spent five years researching before she began writing the first book, in an attempt to marry fact with historical fiction.
Now widely regarded as her most important works, Mantel referred to the trilogy herself as a “long project, with its flickering patterns of light and dark, its mirrors and shadows. What I wanted to create is a story that reflects but never repeats, a sense of history listening and talking to itself.”
MANTEL, Hilary
The Wolf Hall Trilogy [Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light]
London: Fourth Estate, 2009-2020
Large 8vos., black and blue pictorial boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; Vol III with lion device to spine; unclipped pictorial dustwrappers, each featuring a photograph of the author to the lower flap; Vols I and II featuring cover designs by Andy Bridge; decorative endpapers; final volume with black ribbon marker; pp. [vi], vii-xvii, [iii], 3-653, [i]; [viii], ix-xiii, [vii], 3-411, [iii]; [x], ix-xiv, [vi], 3-883, [xi]; complete with diagrams of family trees; near-fine copies all, light bruising to spine tips and mild creasing to jackets the only defects.
First editions, all signed by the author. Wolf Hall in the correct 1st issue jacket, with just the Dianna Athill review to the lower panel, with cut signature pasted to title page; Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light both flat signed, with circular ‘signed by the author’ stickers to the upper panels; the final volume the special signed limited, with additional tipped-in title page.
Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, which begins in 1520, the plot set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil. With Henry VIII seeking to divorce his wife in favour of Anne Boleyn, the story begins with the arrival of Thomas Cromwell; a man of vision and ambition, who seeks to help the King achieve his ultimate goal. Over almost 2000 pages, Mantel follows the life of this pivotal figure in British history, as he navigates the peaks and troughs of the court under a volatile King. Mantel reputedly spent five years researching before she began writing the first book, in an attempt to marry fact with historical fiction.
Now widely regarded as her most important works, Mantel referred to the trilogy herself as a “long project, with its flickering patterns of light and dark, its mirrors and shadows. What I wanted to create is a story that reflects but never repeats, a sense of history listening and talking to itself.”