Byrnes, Thomas; Profesional Criminals of America
NY, CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED, 1886 , LEATHER BOUND
Overall Condition is: VERY GOOD
biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE, large heliotyped portrait front piece of Inspector Byrnes, one full page heliotyped plate. With one full page photographic plate and 204 photographic images of criminals on 34 leaves. An important precedent in the world of criminology and an eduring object of fascination. This rogues gallery presenting mugshots of over 200 criminals of the late 19th century America was assembled by famed New York City Chief of Detectives, Inspector Thomas Byrnes (1842-1910). Each photograph is supplemented by text providing a physical description of the criminal and his past exploits and known associations. Original brown pebbled leather, with impressed designs in all corners (both front and back cover corners),art nouveau impressed corners, quite rare to have author + title impressed to rear cover, original binding gold gilt blind stamp, all edges bright gold gilt, front hinge weak
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