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.

The Matchless rogue, or, An account of the contrivances, cheats, stratagems and amours of Tom Merryman, commonly called, Newgate Tom : who stiled himself, Baron of Bridewell, Viscount of New-Prison, Earl of Holborn-Hill, Marquis of Newgate, and Duke of Tyburn : with a particular detail of his life and actions, both comical and tragical, from the time of his birth in Newgate, to the hour of his unhappy exit at Tyburn.

Accession number
PML 127191
Published
London : Printed for A. Moore ..., 1725.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Notes
Signatures: [A]-M⁴, N².
Contents at end.
According to ESTC, the imprint name is fictitious (see also M. Treadwell, "On false and misleading imprints ...," in Fakes and frauds, ed. Myers and Harris).
Printers's woodcut ornaments, including two vignette tail-pieces: Triton (3.4 cm), and two putti on an arabesque pedestal, each holding a heart (4 cm); one rectangular head-piece with medallion of Hermes flanked by a cornucopia and lion.
Description
viii, 87, [5] p. ; 19 cm
Binding
Mottled calf, gold-tooled, by Riviere and Son.
Classification
Department