Bishop, Eleanor Fletcher | A later issue of the supposedly live autopsy, with an addenda

Bishop, Eleanor Fletcher
A Synopsis of the Butchery of the Late Sir Washington Irving Bishop. Philadelphia: Selden & Marion, 1889

8vo (214 x 154 mm). Six page addenda at end, three photographic plates with captions, tissue guards, title; tissue guards torn, long closed tear to title, a few pages creased and soiled, dampstained margins on a few pages. In original red cloth, titled in gilt on upper board, board ruled blind, decorative endpapers; cloth worn and soiled, head and tail of spine worn with exposure.

The six-page addenda contains an account of another premature autopsy and Mrs. Bishop's testimony before the second session of Congress in 1890. Ricky Jay noted that he had never seen this addenda mentioned in any magic literature. Scarce.

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