The Newgate Calendar
Bibliographical Note
History and Early editions
There is no single book called The Newgate Calendar. The first
readily available accounts of crimes and criminals in
The first "Newgate Calendars" were collections of these
accounts, and as the eighteenth century progressed, more and more crimes were
added; the various collections plagiarized their predecessors shamelessly. Some
of them added prosy morals to the stories. It was because of these that they
were considered uplifting reading and few literate homes would have been
without one; often the only book apart from a bible.
The name "Newgate Calendar" can refer to all or any of the
following:
Taken together, these contain considerably over one thousand cases. Every
editor of the many subsequent collections and abridgements has chosen those he
regarded as most interesting or important, discarding the rest, so there is no
complete edition. This Ex-Classics edition is based chiefly on the
20th and 21st
Century editions of the Newgate Calendar
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Camden Pelham Vol 1 (T Tegg, 1841) |
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Camden Pelham Vol 2 (T.Tegg, 1851) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 1 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 2 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 3 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 4 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 5 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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G T Wilkinson Vol 6 (Thomas Kelly, n.d.) |
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Knapp and Baldwin Vol 1 (Robins, 1824) |
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Knapp and Baldwin Vol 2 (Robins, 1825) |
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Knapp and Baldwin Vol 3 (J J Cundee, n.d.) |
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Knapp and Baldwin Vol 4 (Robins, 1828) |
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Knapp and Baldwin Vol 5 (Robins, n.d.) |
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The Criminal recorder Vol 1 (James Cundee, 1804) |
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The Criminal recorder Vol 2 (James Cundee, 1804) |
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The Criminal recorder Vol 3 (James Cundee, 1804) |
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The Criminal recorder Vol 4 (James Cundee, 1812) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 1 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 2 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 3 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 4 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 5 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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Borrow - Celebrated Trials Vol 6 (Knight & Lacy, 1825) |
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The Annals of Crime and New Newgate Calendar (issues 1-53 of a partwork;) Berger, 1833-1834 |
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William Jackson Vol 1 (Alex Hogg, 1794) |
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William Jackson Vol 2 (Alex Hogg, 1794) |
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William Jackson Vol 4 (Alex Hogg, 1794) |
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William Jackson Vol 5 (Alex Hogg, 1794) |