Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld

By Lucy Moore

Book Overview

This text is a collection of historical accounts of 18th-century roguery, criminality and skull-duggery. It features a diverse gallery of criminals, ranging from infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highway men, pirates and fraudsters. With extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, this volume presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141003464
• ISBN13: 9780141003467
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.6" x 5.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher