a duncan smith ed (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1905. No Edition Stated. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing and marking to boards.

Zustand: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st ed. Notable Scottish Trials series. 1st edition, 1905, in green cloth. Owner's name on front free end paper, & 'note' page; some foxing; binding tight; spine bumped at head & foot with wear to cloth; green cloth slightly stained on boards. Used - Good. Good hardback.

1st ed. William Hodge's Notable Scottish Trials series. Pages a little browned; some light sidelining, etc. to text; green cloth a little soiled & worn on boards; spine browned, with splitting (repaired) along spine front joint. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green cloth Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green cloth.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A set of two works offering immersive accounts of historical Scottish murder trials. First edition, being two works from the publisher's 'Notable Scottish Trials' series.In the publisher's original green cloth binding.Comprising the following titles:Trial of Eugene Marie Chantrelle (said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde') - Edited by A. Duncan Smith. With a frontispiece and eleven monochrome plates. Collated, complete.'Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan' (the notorious Sandyford murder case which was the first to make use of forensic photography) - Edited by William Roughead. With a frontispiece, eight monochrome plates and one folding plan to the rear. Collated, complete. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, with marks to both volumes' boards and minor fading to the spine of 'Mrs. McLachlan'. With rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound, with tape reinforcements made to the frontispiece of 'Mrs. McLachlan', which is detached but present. Plate facing page 40 detached but present to 'Chantrelle'. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a few spots to the first and last few leaves of 'Mrs. McLachlan'. Scattered spots throughout 'Chantrelle'. Good. book.

First. One of the most remarkable Scottish criminal trials of modern times: the murder of Chantrelle's wife by poison. Illustrated. 253pp. Front hinge moving slightly. End papers darkened, inscription on free fep. Green cloth with spine a little dull. Otherwise VG.