The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

by Sarah Wise

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First edition

Wise, Sarah. The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1st edition, 2004 . xvii, 375 pp. Illustrations. Cloth in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 25. * First edition. A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by resurrection men. Before his murder in 1831, the Italian boy was one of thousands of orphans on the

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