Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes Form the Hogarthian UnderworldLucy Moore Allen Lane, 2000 - 299 pages This text is a collection of historical accounts of 18th-century roguery, criminality and skull-duggery. It features a diverse gallery of criminals, ranging from infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highway men, pirates and fraudsters. With extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, this volume presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time. |
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