Staffordshire – William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley, London, 1856, folding plate damaged but otherwise good, bound together with ‘A Statement of facts relative to the supposed abstinence of Ann Moore of Tutbury, Staffordshire, by the Rev Lech Richmond (1813), and ‘A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Armitage, near Rugeley by the Rev Francis Wilson after the conviction of William Palmer, 1856. Marbled boards a little distressed but otherwise appears in good order. The Palmer case was one of the most sensational of the 19th c – it was the first to involve an otherwise pillar of society, and when he was publicly hanged at Stafford in 1857 more than 50,000 turned out to see it.