xxvii+484pp. Illus. in text. (1st published in 1991). The definitive study of 18th-century London when the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between rich and poor as the author shows there was little difference between the criminal and the poor population. Using contemporary documents and illustrations, a recreation of the predicament of men and women who, in the pursuit of a bare existence, had reason to fear the triple tree. Bibliography and Index.

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