The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most...
Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, [1890-1960], Editor. Savage, Henry, [1879-1965?], Introduction. The Newgate Calendar. Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England. With Speeches, Confessions, and Last Exclamations of Sufferers. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., [1926]. Frontispiece. Illustrations. 265 pp. Publisher's original cloth, with gilt lettering pieces to spine and front board. Moderate shelfwear. Bookplate of Sidney L. Peiser to front pastedown. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book contains 43 selected cases detailing the lives and executions of notorious figures like Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild and Dick Turpin. It serves as a primary source for studying the 18th and 19th-century British legal system, social conditions and the public's historic fascination with "true crime"
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