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Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence from the Earliest Records to the Year 1825 (Six Volumes)
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Impression: | 5th or later |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Printed for Knight and Lacey |
| Publication Year: | 1825 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 028000 |
| Catalogue(s): | Beautiful Books ◇ Rare and Antiquarian Books ◇ Crime, True Crime and Conspiracies ◇ Featured |
Complete in six volumes. First edition but later issue with 9 leaves in signature H of volume 4, and accordingly altered subsequent pagination. All plates present, as called for, including several folding. In tan polished calf leather, gilt spines with twin red and brown labels, rebacked and re-hinged with original backs laid down, gilt decorations and lettering. Top edges gilt, all other edges speckled. Each volume has an ex libris bookplate with the motto 'sibi et amicis' (for them and their friends) on the front paste down. Some marginal toning and mild marks on endpapers. Title pages have suffered from transfer from engraved frontispieces. A handsome complete set in very good condition.
The work is not credited but is widely thought to have been edited by a young George Borrow (1803-1881), the Victorian writer, linguist, traveller and horse-whisperer.
