The chronicles of crime, or, The new Newgate calendar : being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 : comprising coiners, extortioners forgers, fraudulent bankrupts, footpads, highwaymen, housebreakers incendiaries, imposters, murderers, mutineers, money-droppers, pirates, pickpockets, rioters, sharpers, traitors, &c., &c. : including a number of curious cases never before published : embellished with engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" /

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