[Item #85315] Lives of The Most Remarkable Criminals; Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or Other Offences. Arthur L. HAYWARD.

Lives of The Most Remarkable Criminals; Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or Other Offences

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1927. First Thus. Quarto. 25.5cm. Publisher's blue buckram cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xv]; 640pp. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners, some sunning of the cloth at the head of the spine, impact dent to rear board; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a clean, strong example of the dustjacket with some closed tears and creasing to the upper edge, pinhole of loss corresponding with dent to rear panel, and some light soiling of the paler portions. A very good, handsome copy with some cosmetic wear.

Originally published in 1735, and ranking alongside Johnson's "Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates" as one of the most indispensible criminology sourceworks of the period, containing as it does details of the most prominent highwaymen, street robbers, pimps, sex workers, murderers and cutthroats.

Price: $175.00

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