AN AUTHENTIC AND FAITHFUL HISTORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN

Authors: Curtis, J.

Categories: History

Non-fiction

Year: 1828

Publisher: Thomas Kelly, Paternoster-Row

Pagination: xvi, 472

Dimensions: 21.8 x 13 cm

Illustrations: Engravings

City: London

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: William Clowes, Stamford-Street

Preface: [iii]-vi 'PREFACE.'

Other Content: [vii]-ix 'CONTENTS.'

Advertisements: [x] 'AN AUTHENTIC AND FAITHFUL HISTORY | OF THE | MURDER OF WILLIAM WEARE'.

Introduction: [xi]-xvi 'INTRODUCTION.'

Index: [469]-472

Marginalia: Front paste-down endpaper 'F. Talbot 1830'. Front free endpaper 'e207'.

Binding: Brown, full calf. Front and back covers gilt-tooled border. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(line) | (decorative emblem) | (line) | 'MURDER OF | MARTEN' (on dark brown calf) | (line) | (decorative emblem) | (line) | (decorative emblem) | (line) | (decorative emblem) | (line) | (decorative emblem) | (line)'.

Edges: Trimmed

Notes:

Full title: AN AUTHENTIC AND FAITHFUL HISTORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN, WITH A FULL DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF HER BODY IN THE RED BARN; TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM CORDER, TAKEN AT LARGE IN SHORT HAND SPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EXECUTION, DISSECTION, &C. AND MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE VILLAGE OF POLSTEAD AND ITS VICINITY ; THE PRISON CORRESPONDENCE OF CORDER, AND FIFTY-THREE LETTERS, IN ANSWER TO HIS ADVERTISEMENT FOR A WIFE. THE WHOLE COMPILED AND ARRANGED WITH UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY J. CURTIS, AND EMBELLISHED WITH MANY HIGHLY INTERESTING ENGRAVINGS.