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VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS EUGENE. Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la Police de Surete, jusq'en 1827 . . . 4 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in fourth volume. 8vo, near contemporary 1/2 black calf, spines gilt with morocco lettering piece, marbled edges, few small nicks to spine heads; intermittent foxing, Florence and Edward Kaye leather bookplates to front pastedowns, LMS booklabel above. Paris: Tenon, 1828-29
first edition, signed by vidocq in the first three volumes as called for. Eugene Vidocq (1775-1857) was a French police officer and adventurer who rose in rank to become chief of a small, specialized detective force in Paris (the Police de Surete). He later organized a daring robbery which he himself was ironically put in charge of investigating. Eventually found out, he was dismissed from the police force and died in poverty and obscurity. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
