Collection of newspaper cuttings, contemporary water-color drawings, pencil sketches, colored woodcuts, portraits, poetical broadsides, confessions and broadsides, of the trial and execution of William Corder, relating to the murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn at Polstead.
Content: Contains 10 water-color drawings, 9 pencil sketches, 2 full-page colored woodcuts and numerous other ill. Among them several portraits of Corder, some full length.
Content: Leaves ruled in red.
Content: Newspaper article from The Times Literary Supplement, Apr.19, 1928 (2 folded leaves) laid in.
Content: Provenance: Marquess of Crewe (bookplate).
Content: Two bookplates, one of the Marquess of Crewe, the other with coat of arms and motto "Anchora tutissima virtus."
Content: Binder's title: Maria Marten, murder in the Red Barn.
Content: Collection compiled by T.C. Newby, for a possible work on the murder. A.L.S. from Newby bound in (leaf 183).
