Entire subtitle: "Being a Collection of the most sensational True Crimes and the most notorious Real Criminals that blotted the name of Brittain in the years 1660-1800. By Various Hands. The Whole collected together and embellishd with Observations historical, moral, and critical by Lillan de la Torre." Contributors include Andrew Lang, Daniel Defoe, Raymond Postgate, Sir Walter Scott, Johan Paget, G. Thorn Drury, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Pearson, William Roughead, Constable Joseph Cox, George Barrow, George Parker, anonymous sources, an old chap-book, and an old ballad. A rich and raffish pictures of the carnival of crime that reigned in England seen in some twenty picturesque scoundrels, including men and women who were robbers, kidnappers, pirates, murderes, jailbreakers. Includes the first narrative of detection, narrated by the detector himself. D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. 1947. Hb, Dj. USED. $30
