Execution Broadside.- Trial and Execution of Thomas Williams & John Bishop, Murder of an Italian Boy, [5th December 1831], 375 x 220mm., woodcut of gallows at head, broadside, some restoration to upper edge, folds and minor surface dirt, Printed at Birt's wholesale and retail Song and Ballad Warehouse, Seven Dials, [1831]; together with 4pp. from a copy of The Sunday Budget with woodcut portrait of 'The Italian Boy' and his accused, November 27, 1831 (2)

⁂ The murder of Carlo Ferrari, "an Italian boy", came 3 years after the infamous Burke & Hare body snatching horrors of 1828. Ferrari's body was taken to King's College dissecting room and his teeth sold to a dentist.