Criminals.- Life of David Hoggart (The), The Murderer...Related by Himself..., hand-coloured folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette to final f. verso, partly unopened, disbound, Derby, Thomas Richardson, [?c.1825] § Memoirs of the Northern Impostor; Or Prince of Swindlers...James George Semple, commonly called Major Semple..., seventh edition, engraved frontispiece with contemporary ownership inscription to verso, half-title, *P3 paper-flaw affecting couple letters, few small stains, small stab-holes to inner margin (repaired to half-title), modern half calf, morocco spine label, very light rubbing to spine ends and corners, t.e.g., for G. Kearsley, 1786 § Robertson (George), editor. Life of David Haggart (The)...Written by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death, second edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (loose), plate of facsimile handwriting, 3pp. Glossary of terms and advertisement f. at end, some foxing at beginning and end, browning, generally light but heavy to half-title, uncut in original boards, rebacked in cloth, cover extremities worn, endpapers renewed, Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co., 1821, some offsetting, generally slight; and others relating to criminals, a few duplicates or different editions of the same work, 8vo & 12mo (11)
⁂ David Haggart or Hoggart was a Scottish thief or rogue. He was imprisoned six times and escaped four; during his final 1820 escape from Dumfries tolboth he knocked out the turnkey with a stone and killed him, for which he was eventually found and hanged.
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