The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband , The Mystery of Marie Lafarge

by Edith Saunders

£495 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. Original news clippings scrapbook First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto 29 x 24cm , and octavo 22 x 15cm , 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two columns, and many blank leaves; pp.256. Scrapbook in contemporary marbled card covers. Book in publisher's blue cloth with dark blue titles to spine.

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