Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
Fri, Mar 1, 2019 04:30AM EST
Lot 260
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, explaining the various Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Estimate: $200 - $300
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(Colquhoun, Patrick) ?A Magistrate,? pseudo. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, explaining the various Crimes and Misdemeanors. London: H. Fry, for C. Dilly, 1796. First edition. Modern quarter cloth, new endpapers, retaining the armorial bookplate of John Phillips, Esq., Edstone. 8vo. xiii, p. [5], 6?369. Folding table. Lacks half-title. Occasional light spotting, marginal dampstains. Colquohoun?s diagnosis of the problems facing the London police force was immensely popular. A second and third edition was published in the same year, and a total of seven editions were published within a decade.
