Serious and godly remarks on the wicked life and miserable end of James Standback, who was executed at the Old Heath near Shrewsbury, on Wednesday the 9th of April 1729, for horse stealing, aged 25.

Two paragraphs in prose above two woodcuts, followed by two columns of poetry; printed in roman and italic type.
At foot: "Entered in the Stamp office according to the late act of parliament."
Illustrated with two woodcuts of (at left) a clergyman, and (at right) an execution scene beside a gallows, with a clergyman and the condemned standing in a cart.