1st edition, first printing. 176pp. In pale blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth faded at edges. A little foxing on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, price clipped, dust jacket (very slightly bumped on edges). Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
The history of fingerprint studies and that of Scotland Yard are inextricably linked, so it is appropriate that this definitive book on using fingerprints in the detection of crime is written by a man who was a detective in the Yard's fingerprint department, established in 1901, for many years.
