The annals of Newgate, or, The malefactors register
Subtitle: containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious death for their offenses, viz. for parricide, murder, treason, robbery, burglary, piracy, coining, forgery, and rapes : from the commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard to the acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd, including a period of fifty years and upwards, both in town and country : calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue, and intended as a beacon to warn the rising generation against the temptations, the allurements, and the dangers of bad company : the former part extracted from authentic records, and the histories and transactions of the modern convicts, communicated by the unhappy sufferers themselves, since the author has been appointed to his present office
By: by the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.
Publisher: Printed for J. Wenman ... and sold by all other booksellers
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Criminals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Trials -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Annals of Newgate; Malefactors register
Notes: Vol. 1: iv, [5]-428 p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 2: 367 p., [3] leaves of plates; v. 3: 364 p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 4: 432, [6] p., [12] leaves of plates.

Includes index.

ESTC T117296

Vols. 2-4 each have armorial bookplate of Benjamin Swayne.