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Smith, Alexander, Captain

The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-Pads, Housebreakers, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats … London: Printed for J. Morphew and A. Dodd, MDCCXIV [1714]

12mo (156 x 95 mm). Title within double-ruled border; lower border cropped, quires B–N browned, strongest in latter half of text. Contemporary Cambridge style calf; quite worn and scraped, losses to spine ends. 

First edition. According to ESTC, a second edition was printed the same year with a cancel title-page that provided the year of publication in Arabic numerals rather than roman.

REFERENCE:

ESTC N8451

PROVENANCE:

K.S. Kitchin (signature on front pastedown) — C. [H?] Firth (signature on front free endpaper)