A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes

A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes
Author: Captain Alexander Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 113648423X

A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows. This reprint makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition and includes an introduction by Arthur L. Hayward, which sets the accounts in the appropriate historical context.

Vocabulum; Or, the Rogue's Lexicon. Comp. from the Most Authentic Sources

Vocabulum; Or, the Rogue's Lexicon. Comp. from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: George Washington Matsell
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780342636808

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Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781555953614

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.