The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise
2004, 1st edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #412386
ISBN: 0224071769
Physical description; 347 pp.: illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; Suspiciously fresh -- Persons unknown -- The thickest part -- Houseless wretches -- Systematic slaughter -- Houseless wretches again -- Neighbors -- Meat : an interlude -- Whatever has happened to Fanny? -- A horrid system -- At the Bailey -- A Newgate stink -- I, John Bishop ... -- Day of dissolution -- The use of the dead to the living -- How many? Subjects; Bishop, John fl 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Ferrari, Carlo fl. 1931 murder victim. May, James fl. 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Williams, Thomas fl. 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Body snatching England London History 19th century. Grave robbing. Manners and customs. Murder. Poor. Social conditions.
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