A Brief historical account of the lives of the six notorious street-robbers, executed at Kingston, Viz. William Blewet, Edward Bunworth, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry, John Higges, and John Legee. With a particular relation of their early introduction into the desperate trade of street-robbing, and especially of murther, and of several robberies which they, and others of their gang, have been concern'd in

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's, 1726.

Added name

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Publication year

1726

ESTC No.

N43533

Grub Street ID

29280

Description

40p. ; 8°.

Note

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Crossley, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious

Price on title page: (Price Six Pence.)

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43