Pictorial life and adventures of Jack Sheppard : the most noted burglar, robber, and jail breaker, that ever lived / by William Harrison Ainsworth, author of "The pictorial life of Dick Turpin," "Pictorial life of Guy Fawkes," "Pictorial old Saint Paul's," "The star chamber," "The mysteries of the court of the Stuarts," "The mysteries of the court of Queen Anne," "The Tower of London," et cetera, et cetera ; embellished with thirty-nine large spirited illustrations, designed and engraved in the finest style of art, by George Cruikshank, Esq., of London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882, author.

Contributor:

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator, engraver.

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Jack Sheppard, Guy Fawkes, and Davy Crockett series

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724--Fiction.

Sheppard, Jack.

Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724.

Criminals--Fiction.

Criminals.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations, portrait.

Other Title:

Life and adventures of Jack Sheppard

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [1859?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Two columns to the page.

"This edition of this work contains every word of the complete English edition, unabridged, and all the illustrations entire, of the same size, and fac-simile with the London illustrated edition, published in London, in three large octavo volumes ... It is the only complete and unabridged edition of the Life of Jack Sheppard ever published in the United States."--Cover.

Title from cover.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937015152

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.