The Dying Words of Captain Robert Kidd, a noted Pirate, who was hanged at Execution-Dock, in England

by Piracy

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Broadside, on laid paper. Two woodcut illustrations. Text in two columns. 11-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Folds, separations, loss to woodcut at upper left, tipped to a larger sheet. ESTC W6962 recording AAS only . Item #373333 Broadside elegies in verse first appeared in London around the time of Captain Kidd's execution for piracy in 1701. Interestingly, American versions did not appear until nearly a century later, in the last decade of the 18th

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