The Newgate Calendar

Date

1824-28

Identifier

Special Collections KB395 KN5

Publisher

London: J. Robins and Co.

Abstract

The sub-title of The Newgate Calendar on display reads: ‘comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century: with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and the last exclamations of sufferers’. Somewhat fittingly, the gold centrepiece decoration on this case-bound edition has an image of a Dick Turpin look-alike pointing his pistol in a threatening ‘stand and deliver’ stance while on ‘Black Bess’. Pistols, chains and a lamp bedeck the spine.

Files

Cab 15 Newgate Calendar.jpg

Citation

Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, “The Newgate Calendar,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7379.