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An account of the alarming and destructive fire in York Minster, on February 2, 1829 : containing the particulars of the commencement, progress, and termination of the conflagration, with a sketch of the life of Jonathan Martin : likewise his letters, his apprehension, examination, confession, and committal to the city jail, &c. &c.

Title
An account of the alarming and destructive fire in York Minster, on February 2, 1829 : containing the particulars of the commencement, progress, and termination of the conflagration, with a sketch of the life of Jonathan Martin : likewise his letters, his apprehension, examination, confession, and committal to the city jail, &c. &c.
Edition
Second edition.
Publication
York : Printed and sold by R. Burdekin, High-Ousegate, 1829.
Physical Description
[5], 36 p. 1 plan ; 20 cm.
Local Notes
Hicks classification: TrialsB M364a 1829.
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 21-0036 copy bound in original blue wrapper, lacking the lower wrapper; untrimmed.
Notes
"Price sixpence."--Title page.
"I have thus given you, though, I fear, imperfectly, a plain account of all I could collect from him. I remain, your's, respectfully, Matthew Wilson."--Page 31.
Signatures: A-C⁶.
Frontispiece depicts the ground plan of the Minster.
Provenance
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 21-0036 copy inscribed on front wrapper: "Jonathan Martin" and is listed as number 100 in the Bernard Quaritch's sales catalog titled "The Library of Geoffrey Bindman part III : the nineteenth century and after."
Variant and related titles
Life of Jonathan Martin
Fire in York Minster.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2021
Genre/Form
Illustrated law - Maps.
Illustrated law - Trials - Criminal.
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