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Broadsides; CrimeBiblio.com
25 Unrecorded English Crime and Execution Broadsides 1810-1879
1810réf. 849341810. The Only Known Copies Broadsides. Crime. Unrecorded English Crime and Execution Broadsides. England 1810-1879. 25 broadsides ranging in size from 19-1/2" x 9-3/4" 49.5 x 24.5 cm to 8-3/4" x 6-1/2" 22.2 x 16.7 cm 14 mounted to larger backing sheets or boards. Moderate toning light creasing or edgewear small holes in places without loss to legibility. Overall 25 rare items in good condition. $25000. Hastily written cheaply printed and sold in their thousands on street corners or at executions throughout the nineteenth century English crime and execution broadsides are important examples of the development of modern print culture and provide interesting insights for the social historian of today. The broadsides in this collection represent the only known copies with no others recorded on OCLC Library Hub or in institutional collections such as those at Harvard or the British Library. They provide grisly accounts of murder necrophilia rape domestic abuse infanticide and labor unrest. The executions they document were solemn and uneventful or carried out by celebrity executioners or in one case never happened at all. Some include elaborate woodcuts or verses. Others are simple columns of hastily struck type. All provide a unique picture of criminal justice in England from the days of the Bloody Code to the reforms of the Victorian era. Detailed physical and content descriptions of each item are available on request. The group includes: - The Apprehension and Examination of T. Ainslie and J. Martin 2 Well Known Thieves. London: D. & H. Carpue. Printers 1834. - Dreadful Murder of a Son And Suicide of the Father. London: Printed by T. Birt 1837. - Calendar of the Prisoners At Chelmsford On Monday March 11 1816. London: George Pigott Printer 1816. - A Narrative of the Trial Together with the Last Dying Words Speech And Confession of Joshua Beaumont. Leicester: From W. Storry's sic Copy York; Reprinted by Pares 1810. - Life Trial Confession And Execution of F.B. Courvoisier. London: Paul & Co. Printers 1840. - Trials and Execution of John and Robert Greers Two Brothers. London: Catnach Printer 1817. - The Trial Confession and Execution of W. Hardiment Who was Executed on Monday The First Day of. unknown
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