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First Edition. Sold by Subscription. Large octavo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; 670pp; illus. Boards heavily chaffed along foredge, thus Good only, but otherwise a tight, well-preserved copy, with gilt and pictorial devices still crisp and bright. An encyclopedic history of noted New York crimes and criminals, with sections on contemporary penological practices including capital and corporal punishment. Like most subscription books from this period, rather cheaply produced and consequently uncommon; this, despite defects, a presentable copy.