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[An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder : a scrapbook].

Title: [An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder : a scrapbook].
Publication: [London : T.C. Newby, 1828?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Curtis, J. Authentic) AL 01-355	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Description

183 leaves : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Alternative Title

[Maria Marten, murder in the Red Barn]

Subjects

Note

Binder's title: Maria Marten, murder in the Red Barn.
Collection of newspaper cuttings, contemporary water-color drawings, pencil sketches, colored woodcuts, portraits, poetical broadsides, confessions and broadsides, of the trial and execution of William Corder, relating to the murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn at Polstead.
Collection compiled by T.C. Newby, for a possible work on the murder. A.L.S. from Newby bound in (leaf 183).
Leaves ruled in red.
Contains 10 water-color drawings, 9 pencil sketches, 2 full-page colored woodcuts and numerous other ill. Among them several portraits of Corder, some full lenght.
Two bookplates, one of the Marquess of Crewe, the other with coat of arms and motto "Anchora tutissima virtus."

Call Number

Arents BIP (Curtis, J. Authentic) AL 01-355

OCLC

NYPG01-B3404

Title

[An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder : a scrapbook].

Imprint

[London : T.C. Newby, 1828?]

Local Note

Binding: Half calf and marbled boards.

Newspaper article from The Times Literary Supplement, Apr. 19, 1928 (2 folded leaves) laid in.

Provenance: Marquess of Crewe (bookplate).

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Local Subject

Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945 Provenance.

Added Author

Newby, Thomas Cautley.

Corder, William, 1803-1828. Defendant

Great Britain. Assizes (Bury St. Edmunds, England)

Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945. Former owner

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Curtis, J. Authentic) AL 01-355