Title: A HOUSE IN BOW STREET. Crime and the Magistracy 1740-1881.
Binding: Cloth Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Sl. Chipped Dj Edition: First Edition Size: 8vo Publisher: London Macdonald 1969
Seller ID: 000998
252pp+illus. A history of the office which established the basis for the first organised police force, the Bow Street Runners. Thomas de Veil was the first of many notable men to fill the post of Bow Street Magistrate and he was probably the first man to employ modern methods of detection. Fielding succeeded to the position, achieving social and penal reforms well ahead of his time. Well illustrated with Bibliography and Index.
