Authentic Memoirs of the Life and Surprising Adventures of John Sheppard who was executed at Tyburn, November the 16th, 1724. By way of familiar letters from a gentleman in town to his friend and correspondent in the country . London: for Joseph Marshall 1724. 12 (143 x 85mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 plates. (Generally browned and spotted, tear to outer margin of one plate slightly affecting engraved border, without the final advertisement leaf for books 'just publish'd, and sold by Joseph Marshall'). 19th-century speckled calf (rebacked, preserving old spine). Provenance : 5-page manuscript bibliography on final blanks, and manuscript note at the foot of p. 61, in a late 19th- or early 20th-century hand. SECOND EDITION OF THIS RARE LIFE of John Sheppard (1702-1724), known as Jack Sheppard. ESTCm locates one copy of the first edition at Illinois University, and 2 copies of the second, one at the British Library and one at Princeton. The letters which form the Memoirs are signed 'G.E.' Brought up in the workhouse of Bishopsgate, Sheppard embarked on a series of audacious crimes in 1723. In April 1724 he was apprehended but escaped from St. Giles's Roundhouse, and in May he broke out of New Prison while awaiting trial. Jonathan Wild effected his capture in Rosemary Lane on 23 July, but on 31 August he escaped from the condemned hold in Newgate prison, known as 'the castle', on 16 September. After his recapture, the turnkeys charged 3s. 6d. a head to all visitors, watching him night and day until 16 November, when his execution at Tyburn was watched by over two hundred thousand people. The plates in the present work illustrate the obstacles he overcame in his escapes. One of several contemporary lives, it formed the basis of a German account (Leipzig: 1765) and of many subsequent biographies.
Authentic Memoirs of the Life and Surprising Adventures of John Sheppard who was executed at Tyburn, November the 16th, 1724. By way of familiar letters from a gentleman in town to his friend and correspondent in the country . London: for Joseph Marshall 1724. 12 (143 x 85mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 plates. (Generally browned and spotted, tear to outer margin of one plate slightly affecting engraved border, without the final advertisement leaf for books 'just publish'd, and sold by Joseph Marshall'). 19th-century speckled calf (rebacked, preserving old spine). Provenance : 5-page manuscript bibliography on final blanks, and manuscript note at the foot of p. 61, in a late 19th- or early 20th-century hand. SECOND EDITION OF THIS RARE LIFE of John Sheppard (1702-1724), known as Jack Sheppard. ESTCm locates one copy of the first edition at Illinois University, and 2 copies of the second, one at the British Library and one at Princeton. The letters which form the Memoirs are signed 'G.E.' Brought up in the workhouse of Bishopsgate, Sheppard embarked on a series of audacious crimes in 1723. In April 1724 he was apprehended but escaped from St. Giles's Roundhouse, and in May he broke out of New Prison while awaiting trial. Jonathan Wild effected his capture in Rosemary Lane on 23 July, but on 31 August he escaped from the condemned hold in Newgate prison, known as 'the castle', on 16 September. After his recapture, the turnkeys charged 3s. 6d. a head to all visitors, watching him night and day until 16 November, when his execution at Tyburn was watched by over two hundred thousand people. The plates in the present work illustrate the obstacles he overcame in his escapes. One of several contemporary lives, it formed the basis of a German account (Leipzig: 1765) and of many subsequent biographies.
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