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Illus. Contemp. half calf; sl. rubbing, dark brown label sl. chipped. Renier booklabel. The first item in 16pp has at tail 'No. 1. New series. Price One Penny.' Text in two columns. No. 1 above is illustrated, and the other items in 30pp or 32pp have no common title, number or imprint, which presumably appeared on wrappers. 4 pts have a final page of "Monthly gleanings". BL has 17 nos. in all. Contains: The adopted son, Despard the sportsman, The suitor's revenge, The missionary's daughter, A royal adventure, The Corsican bandit, The stolen watch, The prisoner of Palermo.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A scarce first edition of Thomas Peckett Prest's penny dreadful 'The Miser of Shoreditch'. Comprising the entire novel. One of many Penny Dreadfuls written by infamous hack writer Thomas Peckett Prest. Prest is best known as the co-creator of Sweeney Todd the 'demon barber' who featured in 'The String of Pearls'.Penny Dreadfuls were a popular serialized form of literature produced during the nineteenth century. The works were typically published weekly in parts of 8 to sixteen pages at the cost of a penny. The genre was sensationalised crime fiction, or supernatural fiction.A very bright copy of this scarce work. In a full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional scattered spots to pages, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…