King John : England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
334pp plus two sections of colour plate illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards with red titles (one corner slightly rounded). Gorgeous deep red endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated dust jacket (one corner slightly rounded). No English monarch has suffered a worse press than King John. Through an exhaustive study of original sources and documents, the author provides a reassessment of 'Bad King John', from his boyhood to Magna Carta, to his death.