VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS EUGENE. Memoires de Vidocq, chef de la Police de Surete, jusq'en 1827...4 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in

fourth volume. 8vo, modern calf in the antique style; scattered light foxing; cloth sleeves and slipcases. Paris: Tenon, 1828-29 FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY VIDOCQ IN THE FIRST 3 VOLUMES (as required). Eugene Vidocq (1775-1857) was a French police officer and adventurer who rose in rank to become chief of a small, specialized detective force in Paris (the Police de Surete). He later organized a daring robbery which he himself was ironically put in charge of investigating. Eventually found out, he was dismissed from the police force and died in poverty and obscurity. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.