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The Newgate garland; or, Flowers of hemp : being a choice noosegay gathered in the pleasant fields of such canting and flash literature as was written from approximately the hanging of those accomplished burkers, Messrs. Bishop and Williams, to the execution of... Thomas Neill ... including akk the verses known to be extant of ... Jack Fireblood ... To all of which is added an anonymous but authentic Autobiography of a thief, written during the 'seventies in thieves' and prison slang
Hanchant, Wilfred Lewis; Martin, Sir Theodore (1816-1909)
1932
Suggested apparently by Theodore Martin's article in Tait's Edinburgh magazine, April, 1841: "Illustrations of the thieves' literature. no. 1. Flowers of hemp: or, The Newgate garland, by Bon Gaultier...