London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1970. Advance uncorrected proof, squarish octavo, yellow card covers, in the published dust jacket. 10, 365 leaves printed rectos only. Written in red ink on half-title "Publication Date April 6th, 1970". VG. Jacket has some creases along top edge (too tall for the book, soft creases to front panel; VG otherwise. A novel of Elizabethan England in which Shakespeare plays a major part. Scarce in this advance format.