The malefactor's register, or, The Newgate and Tyburn calendar :. containing the authentic lives, trials, accounts of executions, and dying speeches, of the most notorious violators of the laws of their country, who have suffered death, and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700, to Lady-Day 1779 : together with numerous trials in extraordinary cases, where the parties have been acquitted. ... /. embellished with a most elegant and superb set of copper plates, engraved in a spirited manner, from original designs, by capital artists.
Category
Books
Date
1779
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237446
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. :. ill, ports. ;. 8vo. Accession no. 4206.1-5. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: eighteenth-century English quarter calf, red lettering-piece, marbled paper boards, edges sprinkled red.