Item Description: | Catchword on the first page of the introduction: they. - Charles Johnson is believed to be a pseudonym. - Consists of the lives of the pirates selected from the first volume of 'A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates .. by Captain Charles Johnson' (sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions), interspersed with selections from the lives of highwaymen and others from Capt. Alexander Smith's 'The history of the lives of the most noted highway-men'. - English Short Title Catalog, T112552. - Individual parts in other copies may be of different editions. - Published in irregularly numbered parts. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Titlepage in red and black |