Smith, Alexander, Captain [pseud.],
The Comical and Tragical History of the most noted Baylifis in and about London and Westminster (London: Printed for S. Briscoe, 1723).

Description

57 pp. 8vo.

Shelf-marks

{L: 12314.f.7.}

Bibliographical Reference

W. H. McBurney (1960), no. 145.

Author

Smith, Alexander, Captain, pseud., cf. preface to The Second Volume of the History of the Lives of the Most Notorious High-way-men (London: J. Morphew/ A. Dodd, 1714).

History of Publication

The Comical and Tragical History of the most noted Baylifis in and about London and Westminster [...] and particularly the Life of Jacob Broad of Merry Memory. (London: Printed for S. Briscoe, 1723).

The title is connected with the editions of:

• Smith, Alexander, Captain, The History of the Most Noted Highway-Men (London: J. Morphew/ A. Dodd, 1714).
• Lucas, Theophilius, Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues and Comical Adventures of the most Famous Gamesters (London: J. Brown/ F. Burleigh, 1714).
• Smith, Alexander, Captain, The secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties (London: J. Brown/ J. Graves/ J. Morphew, 171[5]).
• Johnson, Charles, Captain, A General History of the Robberies and Murders Of the most notorious Pyrates, and also their Policies, Discipline, and Government from their first Rise and Settlement in 1717 to the present year, with the Adventures of the two Female Pyrates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny (London: Printed for C. Rivington, J. Lacy, and J. Stone, 1724).

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