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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. Front hinge cracked, flyleaf trimmed, general rubbing to spine and extremities, but very good overall. Adams, Six-Guns 578. Published by a tobacco company from plates designed for the printing of tobacco insert cards, and the only mug shot book with color plates we are acquainted with. Includes many Western outlaws, among them members of the Jim Cummings gang.