Edward V: The Prince in the Tower

223pp. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Handful of scattered annotations and dots in page margins left by a previous reader. Dust jacket very slightly rubbed on leading corners. Neat, clean and crisp throughout barring annotations. Memorable not for his life but his death, Edward V is probably better known as one of the two Princes in the Tower, the supposed victim of his uncle, Richard III. Though he was never crowned, Edward reigned for 77 days until Richard made himself his nephew's Lord Protector before imprisoning him and his young brother Richard in the Tower of London. Michael Hicks presents the backdrop to this tragically short life - Edward's parents, the contemporary political scenery, his own remarkable achievements - and reveals how he was both the hope of a dynasty and an integral cause of its collapse.