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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This Complete Five Volume Set is clean, solid and in great shape. These old hardcover books include many illustrations. The bindings are strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages show some light soiling and foxing. The pages have roughcut fore edges. The title page shows 1926 as the published date. This Set is handsomely bound with brown cloth covers and bright gold designs and text. The covers show some light edgewear, light soiling and scuff marks. We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Five volumes. Hardcovers without DJs. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering and decoration on spine and front covers. Binding is good and tight on all five volumes. The spine of Volume II is detached along one side but the binding is still intact. Covers are generally clean on all five volumes, with mild signs of wear; rubbing at crown and foot of spines, along outer edges. Deckled pages. Golden top-edges. The Complete Newgate Calendar: Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1734; Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts and Cheats, 1719; The Tyburn Chronicle, 1768; The Malefactors' Register, 1796; George Borrow's Celebrated Trials, 1825; The Newgate Calendar, by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826; Camden Pelham's Chronicles of Crime, 1841; etc. Privated Printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Title page dated 1926. No date on copyright page. Volume I: 333 pages. Volume II: 327. Volume III: 333 pages. Volume IV: 335 pages. Volume V: 335 pages. Overall nice copies. Be sure to request photos before purchasing. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…