A 39-year-old man has handed himself into police in connection with the theft of a rare first edition of the first Harry Potter book.

The book, worth £6,000, had been stolen from the Creative Art Gallery, in Oxford Street, Woodstock, on Saturday, October 30.

The man, from Kidlington, handed himself into police in Abingdon yesterday, after the Oxford Mail reported the theft on Monday, police said today.

He and a 36-year-old woman from the Woodstock area have been released on police bail until December 21.