Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

(Colquhoun, Patrick) “A Magistrate,” pseudo. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, explaining the various Crimes and Misdemeanors. London: H. Fry, for C. Dilly, 1796. First edition. Modern quarter cloth, new endpapers, retaining the armorial bookplate of John Phillips, Esq., Edstone. 8vo. xiii, p. [5], 6—369. Folding table. Lacks half-title. Occasional light spotting, marginal dampstains. Colquohoun’s diagnosis of the problems facing the London police force was immensely popular. A second and third edition was published in the same year, and a total of seven editions were published within a decade.