1st edition, first printing. 176pp, plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original glazed dust wrapper, a little bumped on extreme edges and slightly shelf worn.
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
