Lot 10 , Fitzgerald, Percy - Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office. With an account of the magistrates, runners, and (10 books)

Fitzgerald, Percy - Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office. With an account of the magistrates, "runners", and police ... First edition, 2 vols, 22 plates, original gilt cloth 1888; with a few other older books of related interest (10 books)
Estimate £80-100

Rubbed head/ vail spine, but overall a good set, 'photogravure' type plates on good paper, publisher's adverts and half titles; others including Ashton's The Fleet; Its river, prison, and marriages (1889, light spine wear, title and other spotting); The Complete Newgate Calendar (5 vols, Navarre Society, 1926, gilt cloth - light rubbed and mark, one inner hinge cracked); also Griffith's The Chronicles of Newgate 1884); and Hooper's Newgate and The Old Bailey (1935)


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Sold for £80