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1856 · rif. 84806 — 1856. Two Sensational Trials from Nineteenth-Century London in a Notably Handsome Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding Trials. Palmer William 1824-1856. Illustrated and Unabridged Edition of The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer For Poisoning John Parsons Cook At Rugeley. From the Short-Hand Notes Taken in the Central Court from Day to Day. London: Ward and Lock 158 Fleet Street 1856. 184 pp. Woodcut folding frontispiece. Woodcut text illustrations. Bound with Star Mother Mary Joseph Defendant. Kennedy Mary Magdalen Sister Defendant. The Great Convent Case: Saurin v. Star & Kennedy. Tried Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Court of Queen's Bench February 1869. Containing the Speeches of Counsel on Both Sides And the Evidence in Full of the Various Witnesses Corrected from the Short-Hand Writer' Notes. Together with Copies of the Writ of Action The Pleadings Issue Record Names of Jurymen And Other Particulars Only to be Found in this Work. London: Ward Lock And Tyler Warwick House Paternoster Row 1869. ii 174 2 pp. Main text followed by 2 pp. of advertisements. 4 added woodcut portrait plates of principal parties Saurin Star Kennedy Matthews from another account of the case. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"; 20.95 x 13.33 cm. Stab-stitched pamphlets bound into later morocco signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe blind rules to boards raised bands and gilt fillets ornaments title and publication date to spine gilt rules to pastedowns marbled endpapers. Moderate toning to interior browning to a few sections of Palmer trial creases and a few minor tears to edges of its folding plate minor stains from laid-in plants to a few leaves offsetting to margins of a few leaves at front and rear of text block. Very good copies in a well-preserved notably handsome signed binding. $750. Only editions. This volume contains accounts of two sensational trials from nineteenth-century London. Also known as the Rugeley Poisoner or the Prince of Poisoners Palmer was a physician who abandoned his practice to own and breed racehorses which often put him in financial difficulty. A first-rate sociopath he saw murder as a way to restore his finances. In order to collect on their life insurance policies he poisoned his brother wife his moth. unknown