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Executions in Scotland from the year 1600 up to the present time

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Executions in Scotland from the year 1600 up to the present time
DescriptionAlso, a sketch of the life of the Newgate executioner, Wm. Calcraft. Glasgow : Printed for the booksellers, MDCCCLIII. [1853].
ShelfmarkL.C.2841(25)
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Executions and executioners
Chapbooks printed in Scotland
DescriptionOver 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.
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