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- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- A Decree Lately made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber, after consultation had among the Iudges . . . And also a Confirmation of that Decree by His Sacred Maiestie; together with His Maiesties Command that the same be Printed [etc.]. S.T.C. 7755
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Barker . . . And by the Assignes of Iohn Bull, London, 1633.
- Description:
- Only printing of the first of but three Star Chamber decrees to be printed, prohibiting practices among suppliers of food and drink, including bakers, tavern owners and victuallers, regulating horsemeat, and outlawing houses of gaming, inter alia
- Condition:
- ?Original stabbed self wraps with the blank "A", "For the Council Chamber" on the ?supplied rear wrap, now housed in a folding case, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79494
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- Star Chamber, Liquor & Drink, Gambling
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Reflections on Gaming, Annuities, and Usurious Contracts. The Second Edition. ESTC T1507 [with a disbound copy of the original review of the work (conceivably by Maseres?) appearing in the 1777 Monthly Review laid in]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Davies . . . J. Bew . . . and T. Walter [etc.], London, 1777.
- Description:
- Erskine's first work, contending that the three subjects he treats are interrelated, are morally tainted, and should be closely regulated, proposing that reform legislation be enacted which would retroactively void or limit occurrences of all three
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, with Francis Maseres's ownership signature and his extensive notes and corrections throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79897
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Gambling, law of usury, contracts, insurance law
- Author:
- Dombrink, John and William N. Thompson
- Title:
- The Last Resort, Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos
- Publisher:
- University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1990.
- Description:
- With a very warm inscription on the front free endpaper from Dombrink to his colleague Gilbert Geis, the noted criminologist and authority on all forms of social deviance
- Condition:
- A good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90376
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Gambling
- Author:
- Coldridge, Ward and Cyril V. Hawksford
- Title:
- The Law of Gambling, Civil and Criminal. With Forms
- Publisher:
- Reeves and Turner, 100, Chancery Lane, and Carey Street [etc.], London, 1895.
- Description:
- First edition of a comprehensive work, tracing the history of gambling legislation from the reign of Henry VIII, with chapters on games of skill and games of chance, on gaming houses and betting houses, on lotteries, and on stock exchange speculation
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, quite rubbed, the top of the preface cut away affecting three lines on the verso (supplied in copy), else a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-75703
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Gambling
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