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A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, from A.D. 1536, to 1784 with Historical and Critical Remarks
by Arnot, Hugo
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Smellie, 1785. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, printed for author Arnot (1749-1786) by Smellie; 4to, rebacked, new leather spine and hinges strengthened with red cloth, with original boards and endpapers; good+ (leather on boards scraped, chipped, scratched, stained, worn, and discolored; edges of boards worn to boards in spot, very bottom edge of rear board almost completely worn to board; edges toned and soiled; brown stain spot to top edge, affects pp141-74; eps toned and discolored; top corner of ffep chipped off and creased; owner's name in pen and pencil on verso of ffep; top corner of first blank flyleaf creased, worn, and torn off; crease to top corners of first twenty pages; word crossed out and name written in ink on page vi; pencil note and underline to p55; pencil notation to margin of p57; brown streaks to pp141-58 and 337-49; stain to side edge affects edges of pp339-93; two tears and crease to side edge of rfep; light foxing and soiling to pages; pages wavy with darkening to textblock); 440pp with List of Subscribers and Index. Contents are divided into genre crimes: Treason, Parricide, Murder, Tumult within Burgh, etc.; our copy identical in content to copy in National Library of Scotland with the exception that our copy lacks the 'Subscribers omitted' page inserted between pages xiv and xv.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14122
- Title
- A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, from A.D. 1536, to 1784 with Historical and Critical Remarks
- Author
- Arnot, Hugo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Smellie
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1785
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; World History;
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