Crime & Criminality.- Smith (Captain Alexander) The History of the

Crime & Criminality.- Smith (Captain Alexander) The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-Pads, Housebreakers, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats, first edition, title trimmed at foot cutting some words and affecting legibility, a few other ff. trimmed close at head, shaving the odd page number, some ff. browned and foxed, light cracking at hinges, later morocco-backed boards, spine browned, some wear to joints, rubbed and bumped, [ESTC N8451], 12mo, for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, and A. Dodd, 1714. *** Very rare first true edition, identifiable by its original Roman-numeral title page date (the title leaf now trimmed, obscuring the date), as opposed to the second edition published the same year with a cancel title page bearing the date in Arabic numerals.

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