Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices

London, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1992. Previous owner's neat name, place, date on half-title page. One corner lightly bumped. Overall, a crisp, clean, presumedly unread copy of the first edition of this rather scarce work on interesting 18th Century subjects. 224 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London/New York, Routledge, 1992. Hardcover. Good.

1992. Rawlings, Philip. Drunks, Whores, and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, [1992]. xi, 224 pp. Hardcover. Fine. Internally clean and bright. $25. * Contents: The biographical literature of crime and its popularity; Readers; Writers and the problems of authenticity and accuracy; The criminal biography as literature; The criminal biography as history; Issues and tensions… Read more about this item

Routledge, October 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Light edgewear. ; 6.5 X 0.75 X 9.5 inches; 240 pages

Routledge, 1992. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. A fascinating collection of eighteenth century biographies of street robbers, pickpockets, burglers, horse thieves and confidence tricksters. Background historical information and footnotes are provided.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New. Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices is the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in full. Not only do these biographies make fascinating reading, they also raise the problem of how to read… Read more about this item

Routledge, 1992. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 9.10x6.10x0.60 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.