OUR POLICE: A HISTORY OF THE PAWTUCKET POLICE FORCE, UNDER THE TOWN AND CITY.

Together with:

OUR POLICE: A HISTORY OF THE PROVIDENCE POLICE FORCE FROM THE FIRST WATCHMAN TO THE LATEST APPOINTEE.

This single volume book was printed in two parts: (1) The Pawtucket Police Force... (2) The Providence Police Force... Each part has its own title page, bound together in this volume of OUR POLICE. Both parts were edited by HENRY MANN, and published by J.M. Beers, Pawtucket and Providence, 1889. First edition.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards with black embossed titles and designs to the front and rear covers, 6x9 inches, 93, 519 pages.

Part I: A History of the Pawtucket Police Force..., 93 pages including an Index, plus 13 pages of ads for Pawtucket businesses at the end. ILLUSTRATED with a Frontispiece Engraved Plate plus 9 Photographic Portraiture Plates.

Part II: A History of the Providence Police Force..., 519 pages, including an Index. ILLUSTRATED with 62 PLATES, Etchings and (mainly) Portraits.

VERY GOOD condition: Covers professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a complete, solid, lovely copy. The embossed titles and designs on the front and rear boards are clear and attractive; the spine embossed designs are dark and almost impossible to see, but they are present and tangible. Internally, the pages have some dark finger smudges here and there, otherwise they are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The plates are strikingly clear. There is a tissue guard to the frontispiece, but otherwise no tissue guards in front of the plates, if there ever were any. A solid, complete, and attractive copy, the nicest I have seen.

Scarce 1899 First Edition.