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The Newgate Calendar. Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the most notorious Characters who have been convicted of outrages on the Laws of England... Edited by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin. London: Robins and Co., 1824-28.
4 volumes, 8o (225 x 140 mm). 4 engraved frontispieces and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary cloth-backed boards (spines worn and faded); slipcase.
The Newgate Calendar, first published in 1774, was widely read in Great Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It is comprised of the biographies of forgers, highwaymen, murderers, mutineers, pirates, traitors and many others held in London's notorious Newgate Prison. It includes a description of their infamous crimes and trials. (4)
4 volumes, 8
The Newgate Calendar, first published in 1774, was widely read in Great Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It is comprised of the biographies of forgers, highwaymen, murderers, mutineers, pirates, traitors and many others held in London's notorious Newgate Prison. It includes a description of their infamous crimes and trials. (4)
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