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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

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • 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
  • Other titles: History of the lives of the most noted highway-men. v.3
  • Contributor: Smith, Alexander [Author];
  • 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
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([14],**48,25-152,145-333,[3],336-358,358-362p.,plates); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Brigands and robbers ; Crime and criminals Great Britain ; Thieves
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Footnote: 'The thieves grammar', pp. [335]-362, has a separate undated titlepage bearing the imprint: London: printed by S. Collins, for Sam. Briscoe
    English Short Title Catalog, T141340
    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
    Text is continuous despite the pagination
    The first pp. 25-48 are double asterisked
    Titlepage in red and black