Lot 2045 , Brighton – John William Holloway – An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway… Including, Also, The Trial for the Murder, and the Extraordinary Confessions of John William Holloway, Toget

° Brighton – John William Holloway – An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway… Including, Also, The Trial for the Murder, and the Extraordinary Confessions of John William Holloway, Together With His Life, Written by Himself…, first edition, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, contemporary half calf, For the Proprietors, Brighton, 1832. Together with ‘Les Confessions de Saint Augustin’, fifth edition, text in French, contemporary calf, chez J. Viret et al., Rouen, 1647, 12mo (2).
£80-120

Condition:
Atrocious Murder’: lacking frontispiece, large loss to one of the plates, large loss to p.171, lacking blanks, half-title and also f/free e/paper, browning, occasional minor d/staining, light rubbing to calf; Augustine ‘Confessions’: lacking blanks, illegible contemporary ink to title and rear pastedown, sl. loss to calf extremities.

Sold for £60