[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce ca. 1860 Bodysnatchers !

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

"LIFE AND TIMES OF BURKE AND HARE"

No place, no date; probably Edinburgh, ca.1860.

A popular, detailed, if somewhat lurid, telling of the story of the two
infamous “grave-robbers” of 1828 Edinburgh who, in fact, never robbed a
single grave, being in the habit of dispatching their victims before they
were ready for a grave and then selling them directly to a local doctor
for dissection at his medical school. A crudely printed book, and scarce-
OCLC does not list any copies. Although it looks earlier, a footnote
alludes to a sighting of Mrs. Hare in Paris in 1850, hence our estimate of
1860 or so as the publication date.

Hardcover. 4.75”x7”, 160 pages, several b/w illustrations in the text;
poorly printed on thin paper; bound in newer blue cloth; a clean, nice
copy of a crudely printed book.  [09616]  $150.00

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