Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring the original 1734 engravings alongside additional complementary material from the Library's collections.
Fully titled "A General History Of The Lives, Murders & Adventures Of The Most Notorious Highwaymen" and originally published in 1734. Over fifty accounts of this notorious criminal subculture at large across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.