(Crime Periodical; Penny Dreadful, Jack the Ripper), Harold ...

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(Crime Periodical; Penny Dreadful, Jack the Ripper), Harold Furniss (edited): 'Famous Crimes Past & Present. Police Budget Edition', 56 very scarce assorted issues in original printed wraps ranging between Volume I No.2 & Volume IX No.111, [nd], circa 1903-1905, issues comprise volume I, numbers 2-9, 13 (7); volume II, numbers 16-19, 21-23 (7); volume III, numbers 23, 27, 29-34, 36, 37 (12); volume IV, numbers 43, 44, 46-48, 50-52 (8); volume V, numbers 54, 55, 57, 58 (4); volume VI, numbers 67, 70, 72, 74, 76 (5); volume VII, numbers 82, 83, 87-89 (5) plus front cover only of number 90; volume VIII, numbers 94, 95, 98, 103-105, 107 (7); volume IX, number 111 (1), pages toned and brittle with chips to extremities, a few issues with loose front covers and final page, as expected, scarce survivors being produced as "penny dreadful" throwaway street literature on cheap paper, of the 56 issues present, it appears 5 issues are defective (these being vol.I no.9, pages present 194-212pp, lacking final 4 printed pages; vol.I no.13, pages present 290-308pp, lacking final 4 printed pages; vol.VII no.88, pages present 146-158pp, lacking final 2 printed pages; vol.VIII no.104, pages present 194-206pp, lacks final 2 printed pages; vol.VIII no.105, pages present 210-222, lacks final 2 printed pages), remaining issues all collated complete, content includes notorious 19th Century criminal cases and murderers, including Jack the Ripper Whitechapel Murders (numbers 16,17 & 18); Charles Peace (numbers 2,3 & 4); Florence Maybrick; The Great Coram Street Murder; William Palmer the Rugeley Poisoner; Margaret Catchpole; Pierre Voirbo; murder of Emma Keyse; Constance Kent murder of Francis Saville Kent at Road Hill House; Catherine Hayes; Madeleine Smith; Kate Webster; James Bloomfield Rush; Victor Prévost; Henry Wainwright murder of Harriet Lane; Ned Kelly; Captain William Kidd; Franz Muller murder of Thomas Briggs, the first railway murder in Britain; John Thurtell the Elstree Murder; Dennis Nilsen The Muswell Hill Murderer; murder of George Victor Townley; The Battersea Murder Mystery/The Thames Torso murder mystery 1873; the Tichborne claimant case, etc etc. Each original stapled pictorial wraps. Very scarce, particularly in original part form