The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth, Exhibiting a detail of Facts of the utmost Importance to Great Britain. The whole faithfully taken down from the convict's own mouth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, preceding his Execution.
- Aitken, James, 1752-1777.
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- [1777]
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Publication/Creation
Winton : printed by J. Wilkes, sold by S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row, and T. Evans in the Strand, [1777]
Physical description
64p.,plate : port. ; 80.
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Edition
The second edition. ..
References note
ESTC T66401
Adams, 77-6b
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.