The Story of the English Pope
178pp, six colour plates (inc. frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt coat of arms on front, gilt design and titles on spine. Sun faded spine. Corners and spine ends bumped. Boards lightly stained. Top text block edge gilt, remaining edges untrimmed. Endpapers tanning; Prize presentation plate on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 12mo. Tells the story of Nicholas Breakspeare, the only Englishman who ever occupied the Chair of St. Peter, born about the year 1100 in the village of King's Langley in Hertfordshire.