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Title(s)
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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Additional Title(s)
Murder of Weare
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Published/Created
London : Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster-Row, MDCCCXXIV [1824]
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Physical Description
xxii, 512 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
HV6722.G9 L62 1824
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 324
BEIN: Owned by Herbert B. Lazarus
Added engraved t.-p.
Spine title: Murder of Weare.
"The gambler's scourge : an exposee of the whole system of gambling, as practised in the most notorious London hells": p. [343]-472.
Includes accounts of Thurtell's accomplices, William Probert and Joseph Hunt.
Thurtell was a trainer and backer of pugilists for several years.
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy.
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Subject Terms
Boxing -- Great Britain. | Clowes, William -- Printer | Etching -- Specimens -- 1824 | Gamblers -- England -- Biography. | Gambling -- England -- London. | Hunt, Joseph, fl. 1839. | Kelly, T. -- Publisher | Lazarus, Herbert B. -- Ownership. | Probert, William, d. 1825. | Thurtell, John, 1794–1824 -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Trials (Murder) -- Great Britain. | Weare, William, d. 1823.
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