Modern red cloth with gilt titles
1862 · London
by Canler, Louis
London: Ward and Lock, 1862. First edition. Modern red cloth with gilt titles. A very good+ copy, nearly invisible bookseller's blind stamp on first blank, new endpapers.. iv, 315 pp. 16mo. Abridged translation of: 'Mémoires de Canler'. Louis Canier, chief of the Paris Surete (1849-1851), was famous as a detective, whose work included the search for the attempted assassins of Louis Philippe, Orsini's attack on Napoleon III, and the interrogation of Lacenaire, the poet-murderer. Scarce. OCLC locates only 10 copies of the first edition. Borowitz: C.8. Hubin (1980): p.63.
(Inventory #: 40983)