The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Mystery

First edition, first impression.  xx, 478pp, plus colour plate frontispiece and numerous monochrome plate illustrations.  Brown cloth boards, gilt titling.  Cloth slightly faded, a little rubbed and rounded on corners and ends of a lightly sunned spine.  Previous owner's name neatly inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A late 19th century legal cause celebre, the Tichborne case concerned the claims of Thomas Castro (aka Arthur Orton) to be 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.