Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Agostino Brunias, Thomas Luny and William Hodges. The confession of Ameer Ali, a professional strangler of the Thug brotherhood, taken down as testimony. Meadows Taylor served in the Nizam's police and interrogated real thugs; Queen Victoria had the sheets sent to her as they came from the press. This edition is bound with 54 plates of paintings, among them works by Edvard Munch, Agostino Brunias and Bhawani Das, dating from 1730 to 1919.