The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews, from Capt. Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Capt. John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, Etc. who were hang'd at Execution Dock, June 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murther, and afterwards hang'd in Chains between Blackwall and Deptford
Subtitle: giving a more full and true Account than any yet Published, of all their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of Living. Adorn'd with Twenty Beautiful Cuts, being the Representation of each Pirate : To which is prefix'd, An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name
Publisher: Printed for Edward Midwinter, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge
Published: 1725
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Pirates
Notes: An abridgment and adaptation of "A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates" attributed to Daniel Defoe. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A⁶ B-G¹² H⁶.

ESTC N66516

LC copy in red leather binding with gold tooling, marbled lining papers. Has bookplate of George Bentham on front paste-down. Front board detached.
Table of contents: title: Captain Avery and his crew; title: Capt. Martel and his crew; title: Captain Teach, alias Blackbeard, and his crew; title: Major Stede Bonnet, and his crew; title: Captain Edward England, and his crew; title: Captain Charles Vane, and his crew; title: Captain Rackam, and his crew; title: The life of Mary Read; title: The life of Anne Bonny; title: Captain Howel Davis, and his crew; title: Captain Bartholomew Roberts, and his crew; title: Captain Anstis, and his crew; title: Captain Worsley, and his crew; title: Captain George Lowther, and his crew; title: Captain Lowe, and his crew; title: Captain John Evans, and his crew; title: Captan John Phillips, and his crew; title: Captain Fern, and his crew; title: Captain Spriggs, and his crew; title: Captain John Gow, and his crew; title: Lieutenant Williams.