A RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY GROUP OF SIXTY-SIX MUGSHOT PHOTOGRA...

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£1,700 - £1,900

A RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY GROUP OF SIXTY-SIX MUGSHOT PHOTOGRAPHS.
The very scarce group of sixty six doubles or 132 single mugshot or police booking photographs, from an administrative ledger, showing each male prisoner in profile and head-on, via pasted down silver paper gelatin portrait photographs to eleven loose album leaves, accompanied with their alleged crime and with numbers, names or initials, handwritten in ink beneath, surviving in-tact from the turn of the nineteenth century. The crimes alleged include; Larceny (and receiving), Burglary, Rape, Robbery with Violence, House-Breaking, Counterfeit Coin, Robbery with Violence, Forgery, Wounding, House Stealing, Arson, Pick-Pocket, Shop-Breaking, Cycle Stealing, Jewellery Stealing and Clothing Stealing. There are a few full names such as G. Wright and W.Glover.

Each page (h 18cm x w 12.5cm)