Investigating the Gunpowder Plot
x, 254pp. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout, barring vrey slight dustiness along upper text block edge. In its original illustrated, glossy dust jacket. Jacket is very slightly bumped at extreme spine tips. From the blurb: 'takes a fresh look at the most famous treason case in English history...Nicholls shows how, starting with the most slender of leads, the Jacobean government built up a full picture of the conspiracy and tracked down the guilty men and brought them to justice'.
