Professional Criminals of America
1886jm300New York: Cassell & Company Limited 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Cassell & Company Limited 1886 New York. First printing. Quarto. Publisher's pebbled cloth binding; gilt titles; viii 433pp; frontispiece. 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates. A tight copy in the original binding; spine and corners exhibiting mild wear; internally clean complete and unmarked with hinges tight. Very Good. A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers bank robbers con men forgers embezzlers and pickpockets. Newspaper cuts relating to a pictured criminal or an event tipped in throughout together with accompanying marginal ink notes. Written in 1886 Professional Criminals of America contains 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. Cassell & Company, Limited Hardcover
