232 pp. With six original silver photographs, measuring 10.8x15.2 cm (4¼x6"), tipped to stiff leaves. Also with numerous half-tone photographic illustrations. (Quarto) 24.1x16.5 cm (9½x6½"), modern red polished calf backed boards.

This book is devoted to the science and techniques of forensic photography. The images show photographic methods for identifying forgeries, fingerprints and footprints, crime scene photography, criminal photo identification, examination of written documents (making the invisible visible), photography of cadavers, and various apparatus for measurements. Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (1876-1929) taught forensic photography at the University of Lausanne, where the first university program in forensic science was established in 1909. He dedicates this volume to the French police chief Alphonse Bertillon, an early pioneer in modern methods of criminal investigation.