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William Hodge & Company, 1921. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1921. Third Edition Revised. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Sticker to front pastedown. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

London / Glasgow / Edinburgh: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited / William Hodge and Company, 1906. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Spine slightly faded with minimal loss from head, front and end matter foxed. 1906 Hard Cover. 354 pp. 8vo. An account of the trial of Deacon William Brodie, a well-respected member of society by day, and the leader of a gang of burglars by night. "Brodie's last crime and ultimate downfall was an armed raid on His Majesty's Excise Office in Chessel's Court, on the Canongate. Although Brodie had planned the burglary himself, things went disastrously wrong. Ainslie and Brown were caught and turned King's Evidence on the rest of the gang. Brodie escaped to the Netherlands, but was arrested in Amsterdam and returned to Edinburgh for trial... The final irony was that Brodie was hanged from a gibbet, which he himself had only recently redesigned. He proudly boasted to the crowd that the gallows upon which he was about to die was… Leer más

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Edinburgh and London: William Hodge and Company, 1921 Revised British Trials series. A bright firm copy wih moderate tanning to the endpapers and some dustiness to the edges of the textblock. Binding firm. A little wear to the spine. Scans available

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