The New Newgate Calendar

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The New Newgate Calendar
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The New Newgate Calendar

Edition year 1960
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz')
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 266
Dimensions 22.7 × 14.6 cm

Edition details

The New Newgate Calendar, edited and with an introduction by Lord Birkett. 8 gravure plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'). Quarter-bound in green cloth with marbled paper covers. Dark brown slipcase. 266pp. 22.7x14.6cm.

About the book

The New Newgate Calendar gathers accounts of notorious crimes, criminals, trials and punishments in Britain, continuing the tradition of the famous Newgate Calendar. The narratives range across murder, robbery, fraud and other offences, combining courtroom detail, biography and moral commentary. As well as true-crime storytelling, the collection offers a vivid view of changing attitudes to law, punishment, public execution and criminality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

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