1935 THE HISTORY OF NEWGATE AND THE OLD BAILEY BY W EDEN HOOPER 16 PLATES JAIL @

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled THE HISTORY OF NEWGATE AND THE OLD BAILEY, and a survey of the fleet prison and fleet marriages, the Marshalsea and other old London jails. With extensive remarks on crime and punishment in England from mediaeval times to the present day, by W. Eden Hooper, and published by Underwood Press, Ltd. in London in 1935. Beautifully illustrated with 16 full-page b/w photographic plates. The Old Bailey, also known as Justice Hall, the Sessions House, and from 1834 the Central Criminal Court, was named after the street in which it was located, just off Newgate Street and next to Newgate Prison, in the western part of the City of London. Over the centuries the building has been periodically remodelled and rebuilt in ways which both reflected and influenced the changing ways trials were carried out and reported. Beige cloth hardboards with black lettering to front board and spine. Water marks to both boards. Slight dirtiness to board edges. Rubbing to head and tail. Ownership bookplate and pencil inscription to front pastedown. Pages clean and binding tight throughout. 22.5 cm x 15 cm. xvi, 176 pages. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if and anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 29.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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Shipping Cost: 38.45 GBP