Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Defenders and Offenders. New York: D. Buchner & Co., (1888). Publisher’s gold cloth stamped in black and blind. Small 4to. Chromolithograph portraits of 10 New York-area police officers and superintendents, followed by portraits of 200 criminals, four per page, with descriptive text facing each plate, including murderers, burglars, embezzlers, crooked gamblers and card sharps, and pickpockets. Men, women (one of whom “sports a moustache”), and multiple ethnicities represented. Long tear to one plate; offsetting, a few of the initial plates with surface scrapes; intermittent soiling, but good overall. Adams, Six-Guns 578.