The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London by Andrew, Donna T.& McGowen, Randall - 2001

University of California Press, 2001-10-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover with dust jacket. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper, OTHERWISE UNBLEMISHED. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. APPEARS UNREAD. ALMOST LIKE NEW.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

University of California Press, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

Berkeley & Los Angeles : University of California Press. Clean, crisp hardcover in fine condition. Fine DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2001.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. First. hardcover. good/very good. Illus. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2001).<br/><br/> Endpapers, front flyleaf, and last blank page, all dampstained. Some top margins wrinkled from exposure to dampness, but not dampstained.<br/><br/>

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 346 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white images. First edition, first printing with full number line. Financial forgery which became a cause célèbre in the press of 1770's London. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Both book and jacket appear like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket. .

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 1st. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. Lower edges of boards bumped, page edges dusty. Jacket bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. 346 pp., illus. Size: 8vo

Berkeley. 2001. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520220625. 346 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: Crime Sociology England History London. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case -- filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery -- preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figures as John Wilkes, King George III, Lord Mansfield, and James Boswell, the story acts as a prism to reveal the hopes, fears, prejudices, and deep anxieties of this period of English capitalism. Above all, the case presents a parable of the 1770s, when London was the center of European finance and national politics, of fashionable life and tell-all journalism, of empire achieved and empire lost. The crime, a hanging offense, came to light with the arrest of identical twin… Read More

Berkeley:: University of California Press,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0520220625 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

University of California Press, 2001. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. review slip