Raising the Veil ; or Scenes in the Courts
by Ball Fenner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: James French & Company, 1856. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, front and rear panels embossed blindstamped with a central panel surrounded by a portcullis pattern.Pale yellow endpapers.xii,13-288 pages.Frontis. portrait o fThomas Power with tissue guard. The book is further "embellished with portraits of police, coutrt officers,&c." 5 X 7.8 inches. The book has foxing to initial and final pages, and also at the page edges.Very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010052
- Title
- Raising the Veil ; or Scenes in the Courts
- Author
- Ball Fenner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James French & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
Terms of Sale
Jacques Gander
Books are returnable if found not to be as described, with prior notice.
About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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