Sketches of the Life of William Stuart, the First and Most Celebrated Counterfeiter of Connecticut …

by William Stuart

$600 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Woodcut title portrait. 223, 1 pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt title on front cover. Despite foxing throughout text, an attractive copy in the original cloth. Howes S1104; Sabin 93218. Item #315089 An amusing chronicle of petty crime and punishment in Connecticut. One of the author's many confessed crimes was to overpay for purchases with forged banknotes and pocket the

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