Simon Dale by Anthony Hope 1897 Frederick A. Stokes

Simon Dale
Anthony Hope
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company
Copyright 1897
8 black and white illustrations by W. St. John Harper
367 pages

The hinges are cracked and the binding is broken, but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned with some foxing, there is a blind stamp and a name and date April '98 is written on the front end paper. There is a rubbed area on the front paste down. The cover is rubbed and has light creasing on the spine. Acceptable. Hardcover.

England, 1647: a wise woman has predicted the birth of Simon Dale, to the very day and district. But if the rest of her ominous forecast is accurate, how can this ordinary child be predestined to love where the King loved, know what the King hid, and drink of the King’s cup? For the young man, Simon Dale, only one course of action can be taken: not to seek his own path, but to leave himself in the hands of Fate. This brilliant novel charts an absorbing period in history and the tumultuous life of an ordinary man in noble surrounds.  (#00007)