Author: N.A.
Title: The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm. Weare, and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer, and His Accomplices &C.
Description: London, Thomas Kelly, 1824, First Edition. Hard Cover . Title continues "..to which is Added the Gambler's Scourge &c." Octavo, half-calf, marbled boards, engraved portrait fronts facing extra, engraved vignette title, xxii + 312pp. 10 full-page engravings in text, including two portraits, the portrait of Joseph Hunt placed facing 474 instead of 472, but illustrations complete. Binding very worn, with internal staining and foxing, front board loosened, along with first few leaves, the same at rear, with joint cracked, but nothing detaching. A working copy.

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