AN AUTHENTIC AND FAITHFUL HISTORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN
Authors: Curtis, J.
Categories: History
Non-fictionYear: 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.