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[005283] Caminada, Jerome. Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life (Volumes I and II). Manchester: John Heywood and Jerome Caminada, 1895-1901. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. Two volumes complete, 1895-1901 – Volume One, published in 1895, [5], 6-464pp; Volume Two, published in 1901, [5], ii-xxv, [4], 30-515pp, [1]. Original cloth, title, author, and publisher in gilt to spine of first volume, title, author, and volume number to second volume, both volumes with Manchester coat of arms in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g.

Rubbed to extremities, first volume with sporadic foxing, but never too intolerable, second volume with pages 295-298 loose but present. Each volume with a tissue guarded photographic frontispiece of the author, illustrations to the text of the first volume

Quite a presentable and uniform set, with the second volume published several years later. The first volume includes an account of ‘The Manchester Anarchists at Work’, and the second volume includes the Fenians

Caminada is another of those policemen who were supposedly the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes