The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time, chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgerers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, impostors, and thieves of every description : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations, of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attornies at law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Andrew (Attorney at law), author.

Baldwin, William (Attorney at law), author.

Series:

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

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Great Britain--Biography.

Criminals.

Great Britain.

Punishment--Great Britain.

Punishment.

Newgate (Prison : London, England).

Trials--Great Britain.

Trials.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Nuttall, Fisher and Dixon ; London : J. and J. Cundee, 1809-1813.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Imprint information from volume I, plate facing page xi, and volume V, place facing page 537.

Includes indexes.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937019178

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.