This text is a collection of historical accounts of 18th-century roguery, criminality and skull-duggery. It features a diverse gallery of criminals, ranging from infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highway men, pirates and fraudsters. With extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, this volume presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time.
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Höhe: 223 mm
Breite: 146 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-0-7139-9392-9 (9780713993929)
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The Hogarthian underworld; murderers; prostitutes; thieves; pirates; sex offenders; highwaymen; confidence tricksters; a miscellany. Appendix: the Black Act.
