A COMPLETE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND EVENTS
connected with the murder of Mr. Weare, together with the trial at large ... the whole forming a genuine series of Gambling Biography. Pp.60+266(Appendix)+74(A History of the Gaming Houses and Gamesters of the Metropolis), 8 plates (including frontispiece portrait of the three accused); early tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, with gilt lettered red leather title label, joints starting, fore-corners of boards lightly worn; hinges cracking, bookplate of Nancye Kent Perry on upper pastedown, early manuscript address label tipped-in after title page, scattered light foxing; Jones and Co., London, 1824. First edition. F. 957. *One of several contemporary accounts of the murder of William Weare. After the trial, one of the accused, Joseph Hunt, was transported to Botany Bay. The last three plates (a billiards match and gaming scenes) are by the sporting artist Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851). Item #139526
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