The Wolf Hall Picture Book
MANTEL, Hilary; Ben MILES; George MILES
The Wolf Hall Picture Book
London: 4th Estate, 2022
Large 4to., original grey cloth lettered and embossed in black to boards and spine; decorative coloured endpapers; pp. [v], vi-xiii, [i]; 113, [i]; a touch bumped to spine tips, else fine.
First edition.
A collection of photographs by Ben Miles (who collaborated with Mantel on the stage adaptation of The Mirror & the Light) and his brother George, showing locations which Cromwell would have visited or frequented during his life. The book is interspersed with quotations from the books themselves, many from deleted scenes.
“It began in spirit more playful than profound”, Mantel states in her section of the Foreword, “the first morning yielding thirty-two pictures of car parks”. What follows is a series of images which sometimes capture places which seem very similar to how they might have been in the 1500s, and in others with the concrete, glass and scenes of modern life which, though they be far removed for his life and times, seem to be scenes in which “we are expecting Thomas Cromwell, or one of his associates. Empty chairs are ready, and doors are waiting to be opened…”.
An important accompaniment to the Wolf Hall series, and one of the last books Mantel was involved with. She passed away in 2022.
MANTEL, Hilary; Ben MILES; George MILES
The Wolf Hall Picture Book
London: 4th Estate, 2022
Large 4to., original grey cloth lettered and embossed in black to boards and spine; decorative coloured endpapers; pp. [v], vi-xiii, [i]; 113, [i]; a touch bumped to spine tips, else fine.
First edition.
A collection of photographs by Ben Miles (who collaborated with Mantel on the stage adaptation of The Mirror & the Light) and his brother George, showing locations which Cromwell would have visited or frequented during his life. The book is interspersed with quotations from the books themselves, many from deleted scenes.
“It began in spirit more playful than profound”, Mantel states in her section of the Foreword, “the first morning yielding thirty-two pictures of car parks”. What follows is a series of images which sometimes capture places which seem very similar to how they might have been in the 1500s, and in others with the concrete, glass and scenes of modern life which, though they be far removed for his life and times, seem to be scenes in which “we are expecting Thomas Cromwell, or one of his associates. Empty chairs are ready, and doors are waiting to be opened…”.
An important accompaniment to the Wolf Hall series, and one of the last books Mantel was involved with. She passed away in 2022.
MANTEL, Hilary; Ben MILES; George MILES
The Wolf Hall Picture Book
London: 4th Estate, 2022
Large 4to., original grey cloth lettered and embossed in black to boards and spine; decorative coloured endpapers; pp. [v], vi-xiii, [i]; 113, [i]; a touch bumped to spine tips, else fine.
First edition.
A collection of photographs by Ben Miles (who collaborated with Mantel on the stage adaptation of The Mirror & the Light) and his brother George, showing locations which Cromwell would have visited or frequented during his life. The book is interspersed with quotations from the books themselves, many from deleted scenes.
“It began in spirit more playful than profound”, Mantel states in her section of the Foreword, “the first morning yielding thirty-two pictures of car parks”. What follows is a series of images which sometimes capture places which seem very similar to how they might have been in the 1500s, and in others with the concrete, glass and scenes of modern life which, though they be far removed for his life and times, seem to be scenes in which “we are expecting Thomas Cromwell, or one of his associates. Empty chairs are ready, and doors are waiting to be opened…”.
An important accompaniment to the Wolf Hall series, and one of the last books Mantel was involved with. She passed away in 2022.