A HOUSE IN BOW STREET Crime and the Magistracy London 1740-1881

Hardback. The author was a student of 18th and 19th century social history and it is against the background of the contemporary scene - of poverty, misery and crime that he traces the history of the reforms that were, for the most part, the work of the tenacious and devoted magistrates based in Bow Street. Illus. + Bibliog. and Index. 252pp. 8vo. h/back. Ex-lib. with discreet markings but still Vg. in Vg. protected dw.