Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A general history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, & c. from the famous Sir John Falstaff in the reign of K. Henry IV, 1399 to 1733. : to which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates ... / by Capt. Charles Johnson ...

Accession number
PML 4349
Creator
Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731.
Published
London : Printed for and sold by Olive [sic] Payne ..., 1736.
Notes
Attributed to Defoe by Moore, but not according to Furbank and Owens.
Illustrated by Joseph Nichols and William Jett, engraved by T. Atkins, Isaac Basire, Thomas Bowles, Remigius Parr, W. Pritchard, William Henry Toms.
Signatures: [A]-6K², leaf A1 representing frontis.; numerous errors in pagination.
Description
[2], 484, [2] p., [26] leaves of plates : ill. (copper-plate engravings) ; 39 cm
Provenance
Lord Gosford (bookplate); James Toovey (bookplate).
Binding
Red morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, by Clarke & Bedford (stamp).
Classification
Department