137 Rare Old Books on British Crime Criminals and Criminology Prisons Executions History - Instant PDF Download

THE BRITISH CRIME, CRIMINALS & CRIMINOLOGY COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 137 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of BRITISH CRIME & CRIMINALS.

Discover the lives of Britain’s most notorious and daring highwaymen, robbers and murderers. Read about the history of crime in England and criminal law. Delve into the infamous Newgate calendar of executions and explore the stories and last breaths of those villains of the 18th and 19th century. Read about the prisoners of Dartmoor, The Tower of London and York Castle and much more. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in crime, criminology and the criminal history of Great Britain. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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*** Full List of Books Included ***

A book of scoundrels - C. Whibley (1911)

A compleat collection of state-tryals and proceedings upon impeachment for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanours Vols. 1 - 6 - T. Salmon (1719)

A description of Dartmoor Prison, with an account of the massacre of the prisoners - J. Melish (1815)

A digest of the criminal law (crimes and punishments) - J. F. Stephen (1894)

A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, etc. - D. Defoe (1742)

A history of crime in England Vol. 1 - L. O. Pike (1873)

A history of crime in England Vol. 2 - L. O. Pike (1873)

A history of the criminal law of England Vol. 1 - J. F. Stephen (1883)

A history of the criminal law of England Vol. 2 - J. F. Stephen (1883)

A history of the criminal law of England Vol. 3 - J. F. Stephen (1883)

A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, etc. of John Sheppard giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate - D. Defoe (1724)

A notable discovery of coosnage, 1591. The second part of conny-catching, 1592 - R. Greene (1923)

A prison chaplain on Dartmoor - C. Rickards (1920)

A selection of cases illustrative of English criminal law - C. S. Kenny (1912)

A selection of leading cases in the criminal law (founded on Shirley's Leading cases), with notes - H. Warburton (1892)

A sketch of the criminal law - W. S. Shirley (1880)

A treatise on crimes and misdemeanors Vol. 1 - W. O. Russell (1910)

A treatise on crimes and misdemeanors Vol. 2 - W. O. Russell (1910)

A treatise on crimes and misdemeanors Vol. 3 - W. O. Russell (1910)

A treatise on the police of London; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are ... endangered - P. Colquhoun (1798)

An account of the manner in which sentences of penal servitude are carried out in England - E. F. Cu Cane (1882)

Cases on criminal law selected from decisions of English and American courts - W. E. Mikell (1898)

Chronicles of Bow Street police-office, with an account of the magistrates, runners, and police; and a selection of the most interesting cases Vol. 1 - P. H. Fitzgerald (1888)

Chronicles of Bow Street police-office, with an account of the magistrates, runners, and police; and a selection of the most interesting cases Vol. 2 - P. H. Fitzgerald (1888)

Convict life or, Revelations concerning convicts and convict prisons (1880)

Crime and criminals, 1876-1910 - R. F. Quinton (1910)

Criminal chronology of York castle; with a register of criminals capitally convicted and executed at the County assizes, commencing March 1st, 1379, to the present time - W. Knipe (1867)

Dartmoor Prison past and present - V. Harris (1888)

Days of my years - M. L. Macnaghten (1915)

Dramatic days at the Old Bailey - C. Kingston (1920)

English prisons to-day (1922)

Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners - G. Minshull (1821)

Female life in prison Vol. 1 - F. W. Robinson (1862)

Female life in prison Vol. 2 - F. W. Robinson (1862)

Five years' penal servitude, by one who has endured it (1877)

Forging his chains - the autobiography of George Bidwell. His trial and incarceration in English prisons fourteen years on a life sentence - G. Bidwell (1899)

Forty years at the criminal bar; experiences and impressions - E. D. Purcell (1916)

Half-hours with the highwaymen, picturesque biographies and traditions of the knights of the road Vol. 1 - C. G. Harper (1908)

Half-hours with the highwaymen, picturesque biographies and traditions of the knights of the road Vol. 2 - C. G. Harper (1908)

History of the maiden or Scottish beheading machine, with notices of the criminals who suffered by it - W. T. M'Culloch (1870)

How criminals are made and prevented - J. W. Horsely (1913)

Hughes' criminal law; the law of crimes, prosecutions, defenses and procedure as determined by decisions of the courts of last resort in the United States and England - C. Hughes (1901)

Journal of Joseph Valpey, jr., of Salem, November, 1813-April, 1815, with other papers relating to his experience in Dartmoor prison (1922)

Known to the police - T. Holmes (1908)

Life and adventures of Richard Turpin, a most notorious highwayman - W. S. Fortey (1860)

Life on the road or, Claude, Turpin, and Jack, being a complete account of the most daring adventures of the notorious highwaymen (1800)

Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers - C. Whitehead (1883)

Lives of the most notorious and daring highwaymen, robbers and murderers - C. Whitehead (1867)

Lives of twelve bad men, original studies of eminent scoundrels by various hands - T. Seccombe (1894)

Lives of twelve bad women; illustrations and reviews of feminine turpitude set forth by impartial hands - A. Vincent (1897)

London labour and the London poor Vol. 1 - H. Mayhew (1861)

London labour and the London poor Vol. 2 - H. Mayhew (1861)

London labour and the London poor Vol. 3 - H. Mayhew (1861)

London labour and the London poor Vol. 4 - H. Mayhew (1861)

Observations on Mr. Fielding's Enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, etc. - R. Sedgley (1751)

O'Donovan Rossa's prison life, six years in six English prisons - J. O'Donovan Rossa (1874)

Old Bailey experience. Criminal jurisprudence and the actual working of our penal code of laws, to which is added, a history of the crimes committed by offenders in the present day - T. Wontner (1833)

Our prisons - A. Paterson (1911)

Penal discipline - M. L. Gordon (1922)

Pictures and problems from London police courts - T. Holmes (1900)

Prisoners of the Tower of London - V. Brooke-Hunt (1901)

Prisons & prisoners, some personal experiences - G. C. Lytton (1914)

Prisons and prisoners - J. W. Horsley (1899)

Punishment and prevention - A. Thomson (1857)

Queer people - B. Thomson (1898)

Records of York Castle - fortress, court house, and prison - A. W. Twyford (1880)

Reminiscences of an ex-detective - F. Carlin (1921)

Romantic trials of three centuries - H. Childers (1913)

Some distinguished victims of the scaffold - H. Bleackley (1905)

State trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd (1899)

State trials of the reign of Edward the First, 1289-1293 - T. F. Tout (1906)

Stories from Scotland Yard - M. Moser (1890)

Survivors' tales of famous crimes - W. Wood (1916)

Tales of bohemia, taverns, and the underworld - S. Scott (1912)

The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Vol. 1 - C. Pelham (1841)

The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Vol. 2 - C. Pelham (1841)

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 Vol. 1 - C. Pelham (1887)

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 Vol. 2 - C. Pelham (1887)

The chronicles of Newgate Vol. 1 - A. Griffiths (1884)

The chronicles of Newgate Vol. 2 - A. Griffiths (1884)

The criminal recorder; or, Biographical sketches of notorious public characters Vol. 1 - A. F. (1804)

The criminal recorder; or, Biographical sketches of notorious public characters Vol. 2 - A. F. (1804)

The criminal recorder; or, Biographical sketches of notorious public characters Vol. 3 - A. F. (1804)

The criminal recorder; or, Biographical sketches of notorious public characters Vol. 4 - A. F. (1804)

The elements of criminal law and procedure, with a chapter on summary convictions - A. M. Wilshire (1911)

The English prison system - E. J. Ruggles-Brise (1921)

The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day Vols. 1 - 11 - A. Griffiths (1912)

The History of the Lives and Action of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, Etc. - C. Johnson (1813)

The jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the Quarter sessions in judicial matters, criminal, civil and appellate - T. S. Pritchard (1904)

The life of Dick Turpin (1840)

The life of Richard Palmer better known as Dick Turpin, the notorious highwayman and robber - H. D. Miles (1839)

The loom of the law - J. A. R. Cairns (1922)

The modern prison curriculum, a general review of our penal system - R. F. Quiton (1912)

The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Vols. 1 - 6 - W. Jackson (1795)

The Newgate calendar - Comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England Vols. 1 & 4 - A. Knapp (1824)

The Newgate calendar improved; being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England Vols. 1 - 6 - G. T. Wilkinson (1836)

The Old Bailey and Newgate - C. Gordon (1902)

The prisoners' memoirs - C. Andrews (1852)

The punishment and prevention of crime - E. F. Du Cane (1885)

The seven curses of London - J. Greenwood (1869)

The seven deadly sinnes of London - T. Dekker (1922)

The story of crime, from the cradle to the grave - H. L. Adam (1908)

The story of Dartmoor prison - B. Thomson (1907)

The substance of a conversation with John Bellingham, the assassin of the late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval - D. Wilson (1812)

The thirde & last part of conny-catching, with the new devised knauish art of fooletaking - R. Greene (1923)

The trial, sentence and confessions of Bishop, Williams, and May, at the Old Bailey, London, on Friday, December 2, 1831, for the murder of Carlo Ferrari, an Italian boy (1831)

The underworld of London - S. T. Felstead (1923)

Tort, crime, and police in mediaeval Britain - J. W. Jeudwine (1917)

Trials from the Newgate calendar (1908)

Wards of the state - an unofficial view of prison and the prisoner - T. Hopkins (1913)


An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the history of British crime, Britain’s most notorious criminals and prisons – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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