The Police Encyclopaedia. With a Preface by Robert Anderson.

First edition of this extensive survey of the policing and criminal justice systems of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. This copy is from the crime library of Patricia Cornwell. An accomplished writer of true crime books, Adam was a close associate of many high-ranking police officers of the day, including Robert Anderson, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard, who contributed the preface to this work. 8 vols, octavo. Frontispieces, 210 halftone plates. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt motif of Lady Justice. Cloth marked, gilt bright, extremities bumped and worn, inner hinges occasionally cracked or tender, a handful of pages standing proud, foxing to edges and contents: a good set.