RT Book
T1 Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London
T2 History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
A1 Ward, Richard M. 1984-
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/791066622
AB In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writing about crime', when the older genres of criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets and 'last-dying speeches' were joined by a raft of new publications, including newspapers, periodicals, graphic prints, the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Account of malefactors executed at Tyburn. By the early 18th century propertied Londoners read a wider array of printed texts and images about criminal offenders - highwaymen, housebreake
OP 337
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN P96.C742
SN 9781472506856
K1 Electronic books