Vidocq, Eugène François | Exhibiting mementos of a checkered career

Vidocq, Eugène François

Vidocq, Chef de la Police de Sureté (Detective Force). London: Alfred Dod, 1845

12mo (203 x 127 mm). Printed pamphlet with lithograph portrait by Devéria and Vidocq's autograph signature. Stabbed and stitched in blue wrappers.

A curious exhibition mounted in London by Vidocq which, in addition to fine works of art, comprised objects belonging to criminals as memorials of their crimes, disguises worn by Vidocq to "effectuate the arrest of famous criminals" while Chief of Police de Sureté, and the "instruments of torture and manacles" used to prevent his escape during his imprisonment.