Research Catalog

Title

The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies, and murders committed by the most notorious rogues, &c. From the Time of Edward the Confessor. With the Famous Sermon Preach'd by Bernard Sympson a Monk, to a Gang of High way-men in a Wood near Maidenhead-Thicket. Printed from the Original M. S. out of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Together with The Continuation of the wicked Lives of highway-men, murderers, foot-pads, house-breakers, shoplipts, water-pads, kid-lays, hook-pole-lays, molly-lays, bumming-lays, and the surprizing Adventures of several famous pirates, down to the present Time. With the Thieves grammar whereby the Art of Thieving, is fully detected. A Key to the Art of Thieving; newly discovered, whereby several secret Mysteries are unlocked, for the good of the Publick. Never before Printed. Written by Capt. Alex. Smith. Adorn'd with cuts [electronic resource].

Author

Smith, Alexander, active 1714-1726

Publication

London : printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill; T. Warner in Pater-Noster Row, and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1720.

Details

Description

[14],**48,25-152,145-333,[3],336-358,358-362p.,plates; 12⁰.

Uniform Title

History of the lives of the most noted highway-men. v.3

Alternative Title

History of the lives of the most noted highway-men. v.3

Subject

• Thieves
• Brigands and robbers
• Crime > Great Britain
• Criminals > Great Britain

Note

• Titlepage in red and black.
• The first pp. 25-48 are double asterisked.
• Text is continuous despite the pagination.
• 'The thieves grammar', pp. [335]-362, has a separate undated titlepage bearing the imprint: London: printed by S. Collins, for Sam. Briscoe.
• Intended to accompany the retitled fifth edition, 1719: 'A compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highway-men'.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642427363
• ECCO1-T141340

Author

Smith, Alexander, active 1714-1726.

Title

The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies, and murders committed by the most notorious rogues, &c. From the Time of Edward the Confessor. With the Famous Sermon Preach'd by Bernard Sympson a Monk, to a Gang of High way-men in a Wood near Maidenhead-Thicket. Printed from the Original M. S. out of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Together with The Continuation of the wicked Lives of highway-men, murderers, foot-pads, house-breakers, shoplipts, water-pads, kid-lays, hook-pole-lays, molly-lays, bumming-lays, and the surprizing Adventures of several famous pirates, down to the present Time. With the Thieves grammar whereby the Art of Thieving, is fully detected. A Key to the Art of Thieving; newly discovered, whereby several secret Mysteries are unlocked, for the good of the Publick. Never before Printed. Written by Capt. Alex. Smith. Adorn'd with cuts [electronic resource].

Imprint

London : printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill; T. Warner in Pater-Noster Row, and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1720.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T141340.

Connect to:

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.