SANSON, Henry (editor). Memoirs of the Sansons, From Private Notes and Documents [1688-1847.] London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (194 x 122mm.) Half-titles, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear of vol. 1. (Toning, occasional light spotting, endpapers replaced.) Original red blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, some staining to covers, extremities rubbed). Note: scarce. The Sansons were a seven-generation dynasty of executioners. The last executioner in the family was Henri Clémont and he held the official position from 1840 to 1847 at which point the hundred- and fifty-nine-year-old dynasty came to an end (2).