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Subject Terms Clowes, William -- Printer

Subject Terms Gambling -- England -- London.

Subject Terms Lazarus, Herbert B. -- Ownership.

Subject Terms Probert, William, d. 1825.

1. The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer, and his accomplices : with biographical sketches of the parties concerned and a comment on the extraordinary circumstances developed in the narrative in which gambling is proved to be the source of forgery, snobbery, murder, and general demoralization : To which is added, the Gambler's scourge; a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis / with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs ; illustrated by portraits drawn from life and other copper-plate engravings of peculiar interest.

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Creator:: Thurtell, John, 1794–1824
Date:: MDCCCXXIV [1824]
Physical Description:: xxii, 512 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts