Birkett, Lord [Introduction]

The Newgate Calendar

London: Folio Society, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo (large). Fine. Item #015865

Brown pictorial boards with black quarter-cloth spine lettered in gilt, 265pp, [7] illustrations incl. frontis; 259pp, Frontis, [7] illustrations. About fine in tan slipcase.2 Volumes. Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, and Moll Cutpurse.

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