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Condizione: Good. 1940. First Edition. 383 pages. Orange dust jacket over red cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Blue pencil inscription to front flap. Foxing overall.…

Condizione: Good. 1940. First Published. 383 pages. Cream dust jacket over red cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Wear marks overall.…

Hardback. Condizione: VG+. VG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Two volumes from the Belles-Lettres series comprising a collection of four plays by Jacobean playwrights Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, and John Webster. Two volumes from the Belles-Lettres series comprising a collection of four plays by Jacobean and Elizabethan dramatists. Whilst the 1904 volume contains two plays by collaborators Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, the latter volume comprises John Webster's tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. The reader's are offered an introduction to the playwrights and their work in both volumes. With a sticker from booksellers 'B.H. Blackwell' to t front pastedown of The Maid's Tragedy. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of the volume with plays by Webster. The work belonged to Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist William Roughead. Roughead was an early practitioner of the modern 'true crime' genre, attending almost every murder trial of importance at the High Court to provide him with material for his articles in the Scottish legal journal, the Juridical Review. In the publisher's original red cloth binding over hard boards. Externally, smart, particularly the earlier volume containing the works of Webster. The other volume is a little bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with some light wear to the extremities. The front hinge is starting, firm in the 1906 volume. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good Indeed. Not stated (illustratore). book.…