Bombay

1908 · réf. 71119 — Bombay i.e. Mumbai: printed at the Government Central Press 1908. First edition 8vo pp. xii 340 2; frontispiece 11 plates plus 7 more plates at the back showing 11 illustrations; original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed else very good sound and clean. Early ownership signature of S. P. Hieb Sholapur. From the Preface: "These Notes kindly revised while the proofs were going through the press by Mr. R. B. Stewart M. A. I. C. S. Inspector-General of Police Bombay Presidency are an attempt to bring together and up to date in a practical form such information as is available respecting the methods and distinctive characteristics of the Criminal Classes belonging to the Bombay Presidency and of certain foreign Criminal Tribes visiting it for the purposes of crime . To ensure accuracy and fullness of interesting and useful detail Gazetteers Police Records Major Gunthorpe's Notes on Criminal Tribes experienced Police Officers and reliable 'informers' have been consulted and the information thus obtained sifted and subjected to verification." The illustrations show a number of the purported perpetrators their weapons and other criminalia. printed at the Government Central Press unknown books