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Jones, Dan.
Summer of Blood.
Publisher: Harper Press, London;
Date of Publication: 2009
Stock Code: 14622
First Edition, first impression, publisher’s review copy. Octavo, pp.,238, with 7 plates plus illustrations within text. In publisher’s burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine in an illustrated unclipped dust-jacket. A near fine copy, in like jacket. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across much of the south-east of England, as tens of thousands of ordinary men and women marched in fury to London, torching houses, slaughtering their social superiors and terrifying the life out of those who got in their way. The burning down of Savoy Palace, home to the most powerful magnate in the realm, marked one of the Revolt’s most violent episodes.

£40.00