ADAMSON, J H AND H F FOLLAND: - Sir Harry Vane his life and times 1613-1662

The Bodley Head, London, 1973 . Hardback in brown, gilt to spine, three colour portrait jacket. 498 pages illustrated, with bibliography and index. This is narrative history of a high order. Written by two by two professional historians but written for the reader not for other historians. Vane was the only civilian to equal Cromwell in the service of the Parliament. He was beheaded for his part in the Regicide. The text is largely bright and clean, the boards are unevenly sunned and the jacket is heavily bumped with one small tear. ISBN:0370102789.