CRIMINALS CONFESS

Author: Cobb (Cobb)
Year: 1959
Publisher: Faber
First Edition
Edition Details: 1st edn.
Book Condition: NrF/Vg
Price: £10.00
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Hardback. Graphic accounts, by the people who knew best, of how crimes have been committed - from jewel-thefts to murders - it is a study of the criminal mind, as revealed with utter frankness by criminals themselves. All except one of these confessions were written by people awaiting execution. Contents include : John the Painter, fire-raiser, 1776; Alexander Pierce, murderer, 1823; James Hardy Vaux, pickpocket and jewel-thief, 1796-1815; John William Holloway, murderer, 1831; Gentleman Harry, highwayman, 1731-1747; John Richardson, mutineer and murderer, 1736; Sarah Malcolm, thief, 1733; Joseph Hunt, accessory to murder, 1823. With Bibliog. 205pp. 8vo. h/back. The engraving reproduced on the dw. is from a contemporary print of James Aitkin, commonly called 'John the Painter'. With tiny name rubber stamp to ffep and 'Wildy' label to fpd o/w Nr. F. in sl. chipped Vg. pcdw. A tad musty.

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