Name: Auction: Burke and Hare Murders - 7 pamphlets, including
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 750 GBP
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Letter to the Lord advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets and other facts relative to the Late Murders. Edinburgh: sold at no. 132 High Street, 1829, 36pp.; Authentic Confessions Of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh on 28th January 1829. Edinburgh: R. Menzies, 1829, 8pp.; West Port Murders. Edinburgh: R. Menzies, [1829], 12pp.; The Official Confessions of William Burke. Edinburgh: Stillie's Library, 1829; 20pp.; A timely Hint to Anatomical Practitioners. [Edinburgh, 1829], 1 page, apparently lacking last 2 stanzas; Rhymes on Reading the Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal for Murder. Edinburgh: J. Hutchison [1829]; and 2pp. "correspondence", red half calf, bookplate of William Harvey, somewhat spotted

Burke and Hare Murders - 7 pamphlets, including

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