London, for C. & C. Cundee, no date. (circa 1810)
Nineteenth Century crime and punishment; gruesome murders, petty theft punished with death and tear-jerking executions.
Volume 4 only. 8vo. (21x13cm), 511+(9) pages with frontispiece+ 18 other full-page illustrations. Some foxing, but generally a pretty clean copy. Bound in a full leather binding, contemporary with the book, with the title in gilt on a red leather label on the spine.
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Office of the Society for the Protection of Agriculture and British Industry. No date, circa 1846. Large 8vo. (26 x 17 cm), xii + 790 pages. Bound in the publisher ’ s green cloth, worn, torn at the head and foot of the spine, the endpapers split along the hinges, very clean internally.
With the signature of Robert Cecil, later prime minister, in ink on the front-free endpaper and the name Robert Gascoyne Cecil written in a gothic script in the center of the pasted-down endpaper opposite. Above
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Edinburgh, for Longman, Hurst etc London and John Ballantyne Edinburgh, 1817. Read more about this item about The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Year 1678.

  The glory of this set of books are the black and white photographic illustrations. In the three volumes there must be considerably more than 500 pictures, many of them full page, evocative of the grandeur of London’s past, but also of the life of its streets and ordinary citizens. Even now one constantly looks at these pictures and says, ‘I remember that’, or ‘My dad told me about that’. They will give hours of pleasure to anyone who loves London. Read more about this item about Wonderful London - Nostalgic Photographs