Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

8th March 1734

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13th April 1734


This Day is publish'd, PROPOSALS For PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION, SELECT TRIALS,

FOR Murders, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, and other Offences, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, from the Year 1720, to the Present Time. Chiefly transcrib'd from Original Notes taken in Court. With genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most Eminent Convicts.

CONDITIONS,

I. The Book will be printed on the same Paper and Letter as the Specimen annex'd to the Proposals.

II. While the Book is printing, it is proposed to deliver weekly five Half-Sheets in Octavo (which is more than six Sheets in Folio) at the Price of Six-pence.

III. That the General Title, Index, Preface, &c. will be given Gratis at the End of the First Volume.

IV. That the First Number will be publish'd on Saturday the 13th Day of April next .

Proposals are deliver'd, and Subscriptions are taken in, by J. Wilford, over-against the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-yard.




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