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London.- Proceedings (The) on the King's Commissio

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of the City of London...held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey...for the Year 1755, Number I Part I -VIII Part II, 18 parts (Nos. 3 & 7 each with 3 parts, the rest 2 parts), M.Cooper, 1755 bound with Ordinary (The) of Newgate's Account of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, of...Malefactors, who were executed at Tyburn...December, 1754 [- August, 1755], Number I-IV, title to No.4 almost detached, T.Parker and R.Griffiths, 1754-55, together 22 parts bound in 1 vol., the first work lightly browned, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, spine ends and corners a little worn, 4to

***Reports of Old Bailey trials and executions held while Stephen Theodore Janssen was Lord Mayor of London. The additional parts in the first work relate to specific trials, that in Number VII being 'The Tryal of Charles Bradbury, for the Detestable Crime of Sodomy, said to be committed on the Body of James Hearne...'.

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