Buy this book on-line HOOPER,W.EDEN: : HISTORY OF NEWGATE AND THE OLD BAILEY:AND A SURVEY OF THE FLEET AND OTHER OLD LONDON JAILSLONDON.UNDERWOOD PRESS LTD.,1935. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,minus dw/dj.Bright,but generally clean,publisher's original,pale olive green cloth bds with crisp,non-oxidised black ink stamped letters to upper bd+spine/backstrip,with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases - no nicks or tears present - and clean plain white eps showing signs of very,very light
ageing.Botton edge of rear bd lightly rubbed with some miniscule fraying.Top edge dust-soiled - as usual/normal - and slightly darkened,fore-edges brighter and cleaner but also lightly darkened,contents bright,tight without foxing/spotting,and no dog-ear
creases to any pages' corners - a really sound,solid copy.Antique chain-laid paper pages with light,almost imperceptible page-edge tanning.8vo,v-xvipp+2-176pp[paginated]
includes author foreword,contents+illustrations lists/tables,6 chapters,16 full-page contemporary monochrome photographic illustrations from old photographs and prints on glossy silk art paper; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and double-page b/w photographic frntis.
A glimpse of the grim justice system,judiciary,crime and punishment,penal servitude,
and jail conditions of former times to the present (then 1935).
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