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The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time : chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries ... : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world

Title: The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time : chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries ... : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attorneys at law ; in four volumes.
Author: Knapp, Andrew, attorney at law.
Publication: London : Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, and Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool, [1809]-1810.

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Description

4 v. : ill., ports.; 21 cm (8vo)

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Alternative Title

Criminal chronology, or, The new Newgate calendar ...

Subject

Note

Other editions published under title: The Newgate calendar.
Another vol. was published in 1812. Another issue of vol. 1 has t.p. reading: ... in five volumes. Cf. Ferguson, J.A. Australia, I, 580b.
Imprint varies. Vols. 2-4: London : Printed for Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool.
Vol. 1 has no date of publication; frontispiece has legend: "Published August 1, 1809, by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, Liverpool." Vol. 2 is dated 1809; v. 3-4 dated 1810.
Vol. 1: vi, [7]-8, [vii]-xiii, [1], 9-559, [7] p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 2: 496, 491-498, 489-544, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: 476, 477*-484*, 477-560, [8] p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 4: 511, [9] p., [19] leaves of plates.
Signatures: Vol. 1: pi⁴ a⁴ B-4A⁴ 4B⁴ (-4B4); v. 2: A-4B⁴; v. 3: A-3N⁴ 3O⁴(3O2+K*⁴) 3P-4B⁴; v. 4: A-3S⁴ 4B⁴.
In direction line, $1: [Vol. I] no. 1[-vol. IV, no. 79].
The ill. are full-page engravings and stipple engravings, including numerous ports. of criminals.
Includes indexes.

Source (note)

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society;

Provenance (note)

H.S. Bowron (autographs); Mrs. Henry Snowden Bowron, New York City (presentation bookplate to New York Genealogical and Biographical Society).

Binding (note)

19th-century half brown morocco and marbled paper boards.

Call Number

Rare Books 09-2008

OCLC

215440137

Author

Knapp, Andrew, attorney at law.

Title

The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time : chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries ... : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attorneys at law ; in four volumes.

Imprint

London : Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, and Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool, [1809]-1810.

Local Note

NYPL copy includes 2 additional plates in v. 3 (pub. Mar. 1 and Feb. 1, 1810, by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool) and 1 in v. 4 (pub. June 1, 1810, by James Cundee, Albion Press, London) that are not called for in "Directions to the binder," v. 4, p. [520].

Binding

19th-century half brown morocco and marbled paper boards. NN

Provenance

H.S. Bowron (autographs); Mrs. Henry Snowden Bowron, New York City (presentation bookplate to New York Genealogical and Biographical Society).

Source

Gift; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 2008. NN

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Place of Publication

England London.

England Liverpool.

Added Author

Baldwin, William, attorney at law.

Cundee, J. (James) Publisher

Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon. Publisher

Bowron, Henry Snowden. Former owner

Bowron, Elizabeth Moore. Former owner

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 09-2008

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