Hilary Mantel — The Mirror & the Light

London, 4th Estate, 2020 . Cloth. A desirable first impression of the independent bookshop edition, concluding Mantel"s acclaimed Tudor trilogy with a powerful portrait of Cromwell"s final ascent and catastrophic fall. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first impression of the scarce exclusive independent bookshop edition. A historical novel, third and final in Hilary Mantel's best-selling trilogy narrating of the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a minister in the court of King Henry VIII in the sixteenth century. The Mirror & the Light was widely praised for completing her masterful reimagining of Cromwell"s ascent and fall. Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) was one of Britain"s most celebrated contemporary novelists, twice awarded the Booker Prize for the earlier volumes in this trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Slight bumping to head of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper, excellent, with very slight rubbing and bumping resulting the odd very small closed tear and crease to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one light spot of damp staining to lower fore edge of final few leaves, more apparent to the last leaf. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.