A general history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c
Subtitle: to which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates : interspersed with several diverting tales, and pleasant songs : and adorned with the heads of the most remarkable villains, curiously engraven on copper
By: by Capt. Charles Johnson
Publisher: Printed for and sold by J. Janeway, in White-fryers; and by the booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Brigands and robbers; Biography; Thieves; Criminals; Crime; Early works to 1800; Pirates
Notes: A reworking of A general history of the most notorious pyrates, written under the same pseudonym by Daniel Defoe, and of Capt. Alexander Smith's A history ... of the most noted highwaymen. Cf. ESTC.

Charles Johnson is believed to be a pseudonym. Cf. ESTC.

Originally issued in 73 weekly or 20 monthly numbers beginning 30 June 1733; also reissued with cancel t.-p., with imprint: London: Printed for and sold by Olive Payne ... M.DCC.XXXVI.

Signatures: [A]1 B-6K².

Errors in paging: 226-235 repeated; 4, 177-184, 233, 324-325, 410 misnumbered 8, 187-194, 223, 326-327, 406 respectively.

Title-page printed in red and black, with woodcut vignette.

Text in double columns.

Frontispiece and plates engraved after Joseph Nicholls and William Jett by Isaac Basire, Thomas Bowles, W. H. Toms and others.

The leaves containing p. [1]-16 are found in two different settings: in one setting, p. [1], line 3 ends "of all" and in the other it ends "Ranks and".

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

ESTC (RLIN) t127401.

ESTC (RLIN) t112552.

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