THE PARRICIDE: OR, THE YOUTH'S CAREER OF CRIME

by George Reynolds

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

New York: Williams Brothers, 24 Ann Street, 1847. Octavo, pp. 1-4 1 2-180, text printed in double columns, twenty-two wood engravings designed by George Standfast, contemporary rebinding in three-quarter leather with marbled boards, First U.S. edition. Probably originally issued in paper wrappers. One of the books that put the dreadful in penny dreadful. A quite scarce blood, by the most popular writer of

• Binding: Wrappers

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