With Some Account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the Poisoner. London. John Camden Hotten. (1871). pp. 89, (xvi) of adverts - 'Very Important New Books. Special List for 1871'. 16 x 11cm. Original printed wrapper, spine worn. Eckel p. 223. Originally published by Robert Bonner in the New York Ledger in 1859. This book is the first English edition. ODNB 'A gentlemanly education, literary and artistic skills, and a cultivated taste for objects of high aesthetic quality, combined with the capacity for criminal acts including forgery and, apparently, poisoning, have made Wainewright an intriguing subject for fiction and biography; examples of the former include Edward Bulwer Lytton's Lucretia, or, The Children of the Night (1846), Dickens's Hunted Down, and Hal Porter's The Tilted Cross (1961)'.

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