The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation

First edition, first impression.  362pp, with several black and white illustrations in text.  Orange cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine.  Orange endpapers.  Cloth a little pushed in at the base of the spine, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated, laminated dust jacket, a little bumped at the base of the spine.

A late 19th century legal cause celebre, the Tichborne case centred on the claim of Thomas Castro (aka Arthur Orton) that he was the missing heir of the Tichborne baronetcy.  Castro was eventually convicted of perjury and sentenced to 14 years in prison, despite Lady Tichborne being convinced the claimant was her son.  The case was never fully resolved in the public mind.  But the Tichborne Affair contains another mystery –  riddle in the very nature of the case itself.