Lot 163
Law, crime and punishment
Large collection of works, mainly 19th and early-20th century
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
including: The Malefactor's Register, or the Newgate and Tyburn Calendar, London: for Alexander Hogg, c.1780 (5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, all engraved plates as called for, spine-labels renewed, joints cracked, bindings worn;
Andrew Amos, The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1846 (contemporary tan calf gilt);
Smuggling and Smugglers in Sussex, Brighton: W. J. Smith, c.1900 (original green quarter roan); Prison Reminiscences by ‘A Half-Timer’, London: Elliot Stock, 1917;
‘Chokey’ by ‘Red Collar Man’, with an Introduction by Compton Mackenzie, London: Victor Gollancz, 1937 (original cloth, dust jacket);
Edmund Lester Pearson, Studies in Murder, New York: Macmillan, 1924 (original cloth, marked);
and approx. 100 others similar, including a few miscellaneous books, e.g. Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, London: Macmillan and Co., 1882 (original cloth), the lot sold as seen (100+)