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The Most Notorious Rogues

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Rogues


  • British Library
  • by Charles Johnson & Sam Willis
  • 9780712353397 | E | HB+
Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts of some of the most extraordinary British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries entitled A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Pirates, Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. (1734).

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Publisher British Library
ISBN 9780712353397
Author(s) Charles Johnson & Sam Willis
Publication date September 2021
Edition Hardback with dust jacket
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Illustrations 20 bw.ill.
Pages 352
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts of some of the most extraordinary British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries entitled A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Pirates, Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. (1734). He added further pirate biographies but expanded the cast to include a ferocious band of ruthless and vicious highwaymen, murderers, and wider criminals.