VIDOCQ FRANCOIS EUGENE Memoirs of Vidocq Principal Agent of

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VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS EUGENE. Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. 4 volumes. xxii, 237, [1]; xi, [i]; 266, [1]; xii, 251, [i]; xii, 275, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 and 4, bound without half-titles. 12mo, near contemporary 3/4 tan calf by Bayntun, morocco lettering pieces to spines, top board edges rubbed with exposure; contents clean; cloth slipcase. London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke (Vols. I & II); Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot (Vols. III & IV), 1828-29

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first edition in english this translation issueing in the same year as the original French publication. "Numerous influences on detective story writers to come especially on Poe" (Queen's Quorum 9).