Life david haggart alias (9 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Presumed First Edition Thus. 1821. No edition stated but presumed first thus (we understand that other editions by various publishers appeared in the same year). viii, 173pp., frontispiece showing David Haggart while under sentence of death, and a facsimile of a note handwritten by Haggart. David Haggart (1801-1821), born in Edinburgh, was a fairground pickpocket and thief, he frequented race-courses and was imprisoned for theft six times, but usually escaped from jail. On the last occasion he killed a warder at Dumfries in 1820 and fled to Ireland, where he was captured, sent back to Edinburgh for trial and hanged. Twelve days before the trial he was visited in prison by George Combe, the phrenologist, and between the trial and his execution he partly wrote, partly dictated, an autobiography, which was published with Combe's phrenological notes as an appendix, and Haggart's own comments. The book is bound in the publisher's original grey paper covered boards with a paper title label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with expected signs of its age. The boards have shelf wear with some soiling and the top corners are bumped with some damage and loss to the paper around the corner tips. The bottom corners are lightly bumped. The spine ends are bumped with a little damage and the paper covering the spine edges is worn with a thin split on the top and bottom 1 1/2" of the front spine edge. There is a thin partly repaired split down most of the rear spine edge. The contents are tight and clean apart from a few small marks and stains and foxing to most of the pages and the frontispiece. The foxing is generally light to moderate although some pages are more heavily affected. There is a small bookseller's label on the top corner of the front fixed endpaper but no inscription.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO20201065: 1821. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. VIII + 162 pages - quelques planches en noir et blanc - frontispice en noir et blanc - 1 annotation au stylo noir sur la page de garde - mors fendus - temoins conservés. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. …