I spy blue: The police and crime in the City of London from Elizabeth I to Victoria

by Donald Rumbelow

Real seller with inventory on hand. Hard Cover. Macmillan / St Martin's Press, 1971. Very Good / Very Good. First Edition A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards show a bit of edge wear. Edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. 250 pages. Black and white illustrations.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Korynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

this is a very thorough history of the concept of police in the city of london, london being to the author the london between the original walls. This seems a tad narrow minded but I guess it made the subject easier to approach by limiting its scope. There are many numbers thrown at you but most of the time the book hurtles through the eras with little effort made to place the king/queen or time period. The little stories of scandals related to the police force throughout the times are the most interesting bits, although the author could have tapped these a bit more to make the book have more human interest and less "the lord mayor paid the watchmen 3s 8p to watch the lanes between chary etc etc.). I especially like the contemporary literary references to the police that the author dug up. Overall it's probably wonderful info for writing a paper. A bit of a dry read. Quite a feat of research I'm sure.