The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law

Judges, A. V. (ed.)

Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1930

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xliv, 543 pages + frontispiece + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration on spine. Page dimensions: 247 x 185mm. A compilation of 18 tracts from 1535 to 1626, some fairly well known, others less so. Includes "The Highway to the Spital-house" by Robert Copland; "The Fraternity of Vagabonds" by John Awdeley; "A Notable Discovery of Cozenage" and the second and third parts of "Cony-Catching" by Robert Greene; "The Black Dog of Newgate" by Luke Hutton; "The Testament of Laurence Lucifer" by Thomas Middleton; "The Bellman of London" and "Lantern and Candlelight" by Thomas Dekker; "The Song of a Constable" by James Gyffon. Ex-libris bookplate of A L Chappell on front endpaper. Long newspaper review of this title from 1930 pasted to rear endpaper.; 4to.

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Title
The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law
Author
Judges, A. V. (ed.)
Publisher
George Routledge & Sons, London
Publication year
1930
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
No Dust Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.

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We are located in Dunedin, in the south of the South Island of New Zealand. We are a generalist rare and out-of-print bookseller, selling books in most subject areas. Our stock of over 8,000 titles has particular strengths in the areas of New Zealand history and literature, Maori, Tibet and Central Asia, Travel, Military, and Antiquarian. We are a member of ANZAAB (Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers) and ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).

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