The new and complete Newgate calendar, or, Villany displayed in all its branches
Subtitle: containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, trials, executions, and last dying speeches, confessions (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murders, burglaries, felonies ... interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining : including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high-treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c., likewise the trials of Watts, Downie, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for high treason, sedition, libels, &c. &c. : comprehending also, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years, together with the Ordinary of Newgate's account of capital convicts, and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials ... : the whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the year 1700 to the end of the year 1795
By: properly arranged from the records of court, by William Jackson ... ; assisted by others ; illustrated with upwards of sixty most elegant copper plates.
Publisher: Printed for the proprietors; Published by Alex. Hogg ... and sold by all booksellers and newsmen ...
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Newgate (Prison : London, England); Criminals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Punishment -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Trials -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: New and complete Newgate calendar; Villany displayed in all its branches
Notes: Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p.

LC copy incomplete: vols. 1, 3, and 5 only.

ESTC T117003

NUC pre-1956 NJ 0008084