THE WIG AND THE JIMMY: or, a leaf in the political history of New York

by John Isaacs Davenport

$45 · Offered by Bartleby's Books · No longer available

New York: Published by the author, 1869. 23 cm. 32pp. Four wood-engraved plates. Original printed gray wrappers, chipping to edges. The engraved plates are of a pickpocket, a pickpocket and thief, a till tapper and deputy sheriff, and a burglar. A description on the rear wrapper states: This work is a concise and accurate statement of the gross frauds on the elective franchise perpetrated by or on behalf of the Democratic party in the State of New York at the

• Binding: Wrappers

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