1849rif. 717871849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. Unrecorded Oxfordshire Ephemera: A Graphic Mid-Victorian Murder Broadside Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. A remarkably well-preserved example of fragile Victorian street literature. $3850. A chilling primary account of the case of James Layton. Driven by financial ruin and paranoid delusions Layton attacked his wife with both a pistol and a knife during a walk near Banbury. Despite the intervention of nearby laborers the victim eventually succumbed to her wounds. The case is a significant example of mid-19th-century forensic psychiatry; Layton was ultimately found "not guilty by reason of insanity" reflecting the evolving legal treatment of mental illness in the Victorian era. This rare broadside appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. Not at the British Library or the university of Oxford. unknown books
1849rif. 717871849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. Unrecorded Oxfordshire Ephemera: A Graphic Mid-Victorian Murder Broadside Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. A remarkably well-preserved example of fragile Victorian street literature. $3850. A chilling primary account of the case of James Layton. Driven by financial ruin and paranoid delusions Layton attacked his wife with both a pistol and a knife during a walk near Banbury. Despite the intervention of nearby laborers the victim eventually succumbed to her wounds. The case is a significant example of mid-19th-century forensic psychiatry; Layton was ultimately found "not guilty by reason of insanity" reflecting the evolving legal treatment of mental illness in the Victorian era. This rare broadside appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. Not at the British Library or the university of Oxford. unknown
1938First appearance of this prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. Simon & Schuster published the first book edition in 1939 and a film noir version followed in 1944. Subsequent stage play performances have continued globally until recent years. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. Occupies pages 20-32 of this 104 page magazine which is clean and unmarked with respectful wear. Front cover beginning to loosen and must be handled gently. Two-inch openings at head and foot of front cover at spine. A quality copy of this stunning literary achievement. Book
