Notorious crimes, trials and executions : comprising biographical sketches of the life and offences of various celebrated and atrocious characters, who have violated the laws of their country, consisting of traitors, murderers, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, impostors, regicides, adulterers, conspirators, marauders, sharpers, pickpockets and offenders of all descriptions : also remarks on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, moral reflections and observations on particular cases, an account of the various modes of punishments of criminals in different parts of the world, the speeches, confessions and last exclamations of sufferers &c., &c. / edited and compiled by John Brown.