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02419aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 5E64C4EEE9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210721010052 008 200210t20202020enka b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0712352740 020 $a 9780712352741 035 $a (OCoLC)1139768664 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a HV6453.G7 $b J64 2020 100 1 $a Johnson, Charles, $e author. 245 12 $a A general history of the lives, murders and adventures of the most notorious highwaymen / $c Captain Charles Johnson ; introduced by Sam Willis. 264 1 $a London : $b The British Library, $c 2020. 300 $a 393 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 8 $a Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated 'A General History of the Pirates' (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing 'The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen' (1734) which, published here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' and Fielding's 'Jonathan Wild'. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new edition of 'Highwaymen' not only includes the very best of these original decorative features but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections. 650 0 $a Brigands and robbers $x History $v Early works to 1800. 650 7 $a Brigands and robbers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00838984 655 7 $a Early works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411636 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Willis, Sam, $e writer of introduction. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015321.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E64C4EEE9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search