Twenty Years’ Recollections Of An Irish Police Magistrate. By Frank Thorpe Porter, A.M., J.P. and for Upwards of 25 Years a Magistrate of the Head Office of Dublin Police.  Dublin: Hodges, 1880. Eighth Edition. Pp xii, 410, [2]. Publisher’s pictorial yellow paper boards, lettered in red. Wear to covers especially along the spine, contents pages in good condition.

First published in 1875, Frank Thorpe Porter’s (1801-1881) book is full of personal anecdotes about the cases he was involved in, and the people he knew around Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, and further afield.