While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.

A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.

Soldiers sacking a mansion and torturing its inhabitants. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.

Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.

A man watches as a woman steals money from an old man who is embracing her. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.

Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.

Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Etching by J.J. van Vliet.

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Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Honesty. Religious Temper. Lying. Of Fortitude. Flattery. Theft. Peace. The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Of Honesty. Of Religious Temper. Of Lying. Of Fortitude. Of Flattery. Of Theft. Of Peace. Of The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Some farther remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, Observations on the conduct of Great-Britain; Particularly with Relation to the Spanish Depredations and Letters of Reprisal. In a letter to the Craftsman. To which is added, a postscript, in vindication of the West-India merchants, against a late Charge of Theft and Pyracy. By Caleb D'Anvers of Gray's-Inn, Esq;

The life of Patrick Madan; Exhibiting a Series of the most extraordinary Transactions, notorious Villanies, and wonderful Escapes, that ever happened to one Man. Comprizing a Series of Events equally calculated to astonish the Mind, and lead the Heart to Virtue, by exhibiting the Deformity of Vice. With Reflections naturally arising from the Subject; and Hints, which if attended to, will tend greatly to the Suppression of every Species of Theft.

Preventing library book theft / H.C. Keele.

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Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Honesty. Religious Temper. Lying. Of Fortitude. Flattery. Theft. Peace. The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Of Honesty. Of Religious Temper. Of Lying. Of Fortitude. Of Flattery. Of Theft. Of Peace. Of The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Preventing library book theft / H.C. Keele.

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Fake news and the flu

Beating the bodysnatchers

The healing power of the physic garden

Louis Wain’s cryptic cats

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Catalogue

Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Honesty. Religious Temper. Lying. Of Fortitude. Flattery. Theft. Peace. The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Of Honesty. Of Religious Temper. Of Lying. Of Fortitude. Of Flattery. Of Theft. Of Peace. Of The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Preventing library book theft / H.C. Keele.