The New Newgate calendar; or, Malefactor's bloody register
By: Containing authentic and circumstantial accounts of the lives, transactions, exploits, trials, executions, dying speeches, confessions, and other curious particulars, relating to all the most notorious criminals (of both sexes) and violaters of the laws of their country; who have suffered death, and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the commencement of the year 1700, to the present time ... Embellished with the most elegant and superb set of entire new copper-plates, finely engraved from original designs, by Wale, Dodd, and others
Publisher: Printed, by authority, only for Alex. Hogg ...
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials; Crime
Other titles: Malefactor's register.; Malefactor's bloody register.; Newgate and Tyburn calendar.; New Newgate and Tyburn calendar.
Notes: Signatures: v. 1, [A]-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, 3A-3F⁴ ([A₁] frontispiece; D2 incorrectly signed D₃); v. 2. A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, 3A-3D⁴; v. 3. A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Ddd⁴; v. 4. A-Z⁴, AA-Zz⁴, Aaa-Eee⁴ (Eee4 blank); v. 5. 1 leaf unsigned, B-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, a-f⁴ (b₃-₄ wanting).

Pages 24-28, 2d group of paging, v. 5, incorrectly numbered 64-88, respectively.

Vol. 2 has title: The Malefactor's register; or, The Newgate and Tyburn calendar. Vol. 3-5 have title: The malefactor's register; or, New Newgate and Tyburn calendar.

Imprint varies slightly.

Bound in half calf.

Rare Book copy: From Kent collection.