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The hangman's grave.

Accession number
PML 136667.157
Published
[England : s.n., 1883]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Concerning the death of the British government's official hangman, William Marwood, in 1883.
Printed in a single column within decorative border, with a cut of a man walking with a cane at head of sheet.
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 37 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department