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Report of the Trial of Professor John W. Webster Indicted for the...

Webster, John W. Report of the Trial of Prof. John W. Webster, Indicted for the Murder of Dr. George Parkman. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850. Reprint edition. Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library [1990]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 314 pp. Blue quarter-calf, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Internally clean. A fine copy. $20. * Facsimile of the second edition. "Perhaps the most famous medico-legal murder trial in the 19th century.... For many years the trial of Professor Webster remained a leading case on the value of circumstantial evidence." Marke 1008.

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