Hunted Down: A Story. With Some Account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the Poisoner.
London: John Camden Hotten, 74 & 75, Picadilly, No date [c. 1870]. First British edition. Savill, Edwards and Co., Printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden.
First British edition. 16mo (6 1/2" x 4 1/4"); 89, [1]pp + 26 flyleaves; brown calf over board with double gilt fillets and corner ornaments; 4 gilt decorated compartments on the spine and two with gilt lettered labels; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles, gilt brocade endpapers; engraved vignette on title page; sunning of boards, top front joint starting; very good plus. (Eckel p. 189-9). Item #2222
Published first in the U.S. in 1859 by Robert Bonner, owner of the New York Ledger, it was published again in the periodical All the Year Round in 1860. The British publisher Hotten published it in 1870 with a paper wrapper and publisher's ads at the rear. This copy was bound in brown calf and lacks a binder name. Curiously it also lackes the publisher's ads at the rear but includes 26 flyleaves.
Price: $450.00