select and impartial account of the lives, behaviour, and dying words, of the most remarkable convicts, from the year 1700, down to the present time
Subtitle: containing among other things the following ...
Publisher: Printed by J. Applebee for J. Hodges ... and sold also by C. Corbett ...
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Criminals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Vol. 2 has imprint date: MDCCXL [1740].

Vol. 1: vi, [6], 336 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 360, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates.

LC copy incomplete: v. 1 only.

Vol. 1 has bookplate of "The Honourable Charles Hope Weir of Craigie Hall & Blackwood, Esqr."
Table of contents: value: (from t.p.) viz. Herdman Strodman for the barbarous murder of Peter Wolter, his fellow-apprentice; value: Thomas Cook, the Gloucester butcher, for the murder of Mr. John Cooper, a constable in the May Fair; value: John Morgridge, for the murder of Lieut. Cope, at the Tower; value: Mr. Gregg, clerk to the late Secretary Harley, Earl of Oxford, for holding correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies; value: Richard Town, tallow-chandler, the only person who was executed on the Bankrupt Act; value: Col. Oxburgh, Richard Gascoignes, Esq., Justice Hall, and Parson Paul, for high-treason; value: Marquis de Paleotti, for stabbing his servant; value: Lieutenant Bird, for the murder of Sam. Loxton, at a bagnio; value: Mattias Brinsden, for the murder of his wife; value: Capt. John Massey, for piracy; value: Capt. John Stanley, for the murder of Mrs. Maycock; value: Jonathan Wild, the thief-take for several felonies.