A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen (Hardcover)

Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen (1734) which, published here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new edition of Highwaymen not only includes the very best of these original decorative features but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections.

General

Imprint:	British Library Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2020
Authors:	Captain Charles Johnson
Introduction by:	Sam Willis
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 51mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-7123-5274-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7123-5274-0
Barcode:	9780712352741

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