Birkett, Sir Norman [Editor]

THE NEWGATE CALENDAR. [and] THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR.

In two volumes. Volume One: Edited and selected by Sir Norman Birkett. With contemporary engravings. Pp. [iv]+260, frontispiece, plus 7 plates; Volume Two: Edited with an introduction by Lord Birkett. Pp. [ii]+266(last blank), frontispiece, plus7 plates; marching qr. black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown papered boards patterned in gilt & black, the boards a trifle sprung; top edges brown; housed together in a single brown card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 1993. Reissued. [Folio 40]. *Eighteenth and nineteenth century trials. From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Folio Society book label on verso of upper free endpapers. Item #149332

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