Radlett murder.- Fatal Effects of Gambling (The) Exemplified in the Murder of Wm. Weare...To Which is Added, the Gambler's Scourge..., engraved portrait frontispiece, additional vignette title and 10 plates, few stains, some foxing, contemporary calf, wear to extremities, rubbed, upper joint cracked, Thomas Kelly, 1824 § Narrative of the Murder of Mr. Weare, at Gill's Hill..., folding plate, title and front free endpaper loose, plate working loose with some tears and old repairs to verso (no image loss), J. Edgerley, [1823], bound with Verbatim Report of the Proceedings on the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, For the Murder of Mr. Wm. Weare..., final f. with very small hole without text loss, final 2 leaves with old stab-holes to gutter and working loose, T. Dickie, 1824, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink notes in a contemporary hand to pastedowns, to rear pastedown "Probert + Hunt are said to have been subsequently hanged; one for sheep stealing; but in Annual Register for 1824 Hunt is said to have been transported for life", soiling, contemporary half calf, printed paper label advertising T. Rowden circulating library to upper cover, worn, joints cracked, upper cover nearly detached, uncut; and 3 others relating to Weare's murder, 8vo (5)
⁂ Contemporary accounts of the murder of William Weare, an unscrupulous London gambler, who had been pulled from a horse-drawn gig and murdered in a quiet country lane in Hertfordshire. The arrest and trial of three men for Weare's murder became one of the most famous and sensationalised crimes of its time.
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