The Newgate Calendar (1951)

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The Newgate Calendar (1951)
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The Newgate Calendar (1951)

Edition year 1951
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 259
Dimensions 22.7 × 15 cm

Edition details

The Newgate Calendar. Edited and introduced by Sir Norman Birkett. 8 leaves of contemporary engravings. Bound in quarter red cloth with marbled paper boards. White dust-jacket printed in red and black. 259pp. 22.7x15cm.

About the book

The Newgate Calendar is a collection of accounts of criminals, trials and executions associated with London's Newgate Prison. The stories describe murders, robberies and other crimes while often presenting moral warnings about criminal behaviour. Hugely popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Calendar played an important role in the development of crime writing and popular sensational literature.

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