[124] pp. With 60 chromolithographed plates containing 210 portraits (the first ten are of individual "Defenders" in police uniforms). Also, with corresponding text pages, providing a short summary for each person. Wood engraving on final page. 9x7, rebound in modern gray cloth with original decorative golden cloth front cover laid down, new endpapers; bound by Richard E. Huss of Willow Street (PA). First Edition.

Reputedly the first color "mug-book" published in the United States. Collects brief summaries with chromolithographed portraits of 200 criminals of the greater New York area apprehended during the later half of the 19th century. Mostly white males, but also about 25 women, a few African-Americans and several Asian-Americans. "Rare. Has portraits of criminals, many of them western outlaws...Jim Burrow, Charles Parker, Frederick Witrock, Edward Kinney, and Tom Price (the last three members of the Jim Cummings gang)" - Adams, Six-Guns, 578.