A Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis Containing A Detail Of The Various Crimes And

by Patrick Colquhoun

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London: printed by H. Fry, Finsbury-place, for C. Dilly, Poultry, 1797. 8vo, pp. xxix, 1 , 6 , 444, xxviii; uncut; double-page table of prisoners loose, but present ; contemporary if not original marbled boards, crean paper shelfback, manuscript titling Police of the Metropolis on spine; some fading and wear, but on the whole very good. Small orange bookplate of Henry David Forbes of Balgownie 1790-1869 . Colquhoun's influential treatise on crime and

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