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    The titlepage of a pamphlet featuring a stamp from the Surgeon General’s Office Library and an engraving on the bottom of the page of the Talbot Arms, Rugeley, the scene of Cook’s death. In the engraving are old buildings with people coming in and out of them and walking on the streets.
    Pages 96-97 of a book, featuring an engraving of a scene before the Central Criminal Court during Palmer’s trial.
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    An engraved illustration of Drs. Taylor and Reese performing their forensic testing analysis in a laboratory with test tubes around them.

    Drs. Taylor and Rees Performing their Analysis, 1856

    Illustrated and unabridged edition of the Times report of the trial of William Palmer, for poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley. With The Official Report of the minutes of evidence. 184 pp. (London, 1856).

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    The main titlepage and yellow cover of a pamphlet with a stamp from the Surgeon General’s Office Library.

    Illustrated and unabridged edition of the Times report of the trial of William Palmer, for poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley. With The Official Report of the minutes of evidence. 184 pp. (London, 1856).

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    The yellow-colored cover of a pamphlet with a stamp from the Surgeon General’s Office Library.
    Report of the Trial of William Palmer, 1856
    The titlepage of a pamphlet featuring a stamp from the Surgeon General’s Office Library and an engraving on the bottom of the page of the Talbot Arms, Rugeley, the scene of Cook’s death. In the engraving are old buildings with people coming in and out of them and walking on the streets.
    The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer, 1856
    Pages 96-97 of a book, featuring an engraving of a scene before the Central Criminal Court during Palmer’s trial.
    Scene Before the Central Criminal Court, During Palmer’s Trial, 1856
    An engraving of the outside of Stafford Gaol with a few people gathered outside looking at the prison building.
    Stafford Gaol, 1856
    Pages 128-129 of a book, featuring an illustration of the juror's sleeping apartment in the London coffee-house. The jurors are scattered around the room in various stages of preparing for the day.
    The Jurors' Sleeping Apartment in the London Coffee-House, 1856
    Pages 160-161 of a book, featuring an illustration of the courtroom view of the prisoner’s dock.
    The Prisoner in the Dock, 1856
    Pages 176-177 of a book. Page 176 features two engravings: the top illustration is the view from the door of William Palmer's cell in Newgate from the door, while the bottom illustration is a view of the gallery leading from Newgate to the Central Criminal Court. On the upper half of page 177 is an illustration of the cells below the Central Criminal Court with four guards, while the bottom half is a section of the trial transcript.
    Cells in Newgate and Central Criminal Court, 1856

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