The Chronicles of Crime; or, the New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain From the Earliest Period to 1841
Author:
PELHAM, CAMDEN & PHIZ (Engravings)
Title:
The Chronicles of Crime; or, the New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain From the Earliest Period to 1841
Publisher:
Reeves and Turner 1886
Description:
TWO VOL SET, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & motif of Newgate Prison to front boards, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xii + 592pp, vol 2- viii + 636pp, illus/engravings with tissue guards- not counted but presumed all present, VG-/scruffy (very heavy chipping to spine extrems with considerable loss to each volume spine, moderate to heavy chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, 9cm closed tear to top of pg vii of vol 2, light foxing to illus & tissue guards but unobtrusive, pencil inscription to verso of fep of vol 1)
Keywords:
crime history Newgate Prison illustrated Phiz biographies anecdotes
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