"The Sin of David" by Stephen Phillips, is a play about the 17th century English Civil War, in which royalists and parliamentarian Round heads under Cromwell brought England into nine years of woe and misery. This is the 1904 Macmillan First Trade Edition. The book includes the errata slip bound between the list of characters and the first Act. The book is intact and complete but displays a few signs of wear and use. See our complete condition evaluation below.

TITLE : The Sin of David
AUTHOR : Stephen Phillips (1864 - 1915)
IMPRINT : Macmillan and Company
PLACE : London
DATE : 1904
EDITION : First Trade Edition
SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Has the errata slip bound in .
STATUS : OP : Available new only as a print on demand.
PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; bound in errata slip; [iv] + 77 pages + [1] + 2 pages of publisher's list; 5" x 7 1/2"; dark blue, cloth-covered boards with stamped gilt lettering on front board and spine; simple line border in gilt stamped on front board; rear board has line border stamped in blind; rough trim to text-block edges; publisher's device on verso of half-title; sans dust-jacket.

CONDITION ... This is a previously owned book which remains clean and serviceable, the following particulars noted :

EXTERIOR : Splitting and abrasion to spine extremities; evidence of mending neatly effected to head of spine; gilt lettering on spine fairly bright; joints rubbed and abraded; board corner tips are bumped, with attendant splitting of cloth, revealing the underlying board; front board has very mild rub and bright gilt; there is one serious scuff and a smaller scuff to the rear board; rear board has a couple of minute spots; text-block edges toned, else clean.
BINDING : The book has obviously been read and thus the text-block is not as tight as when issued - however no leaves are detached or loose.
INTERIOR : The paper over the front hinge is partially split; front and rear end-papers are toned and display modest weathering - else clean. The front paste-down has the penciled signature, address and date of a previous owner - this is in the top left corner; at the bottom left corner of same is a small numeral 7; on the front free end-paper is just discernible an old erased price; at the top of the half-title is an erasure (cannot make out what was erased - this erasure has slightly thinned the paper); on the title page, after the author's name are penciled birth and death dates in brackets - (the birth date inaccurately stated as 1868) ; there are a few minute spots and smudges through the book, these of no great effect - else the interior is clean and free of marking.
DUST-JACKET : Not Present.