Paul Clifford [1835], Eugene Aram [1833], Night and Morning [1851], and Lucretia [1853] by Edward Bulwer Lytton, and Rookwood [1836] and Jack Sheppard [first edition] by W. Harrison Ainsworth, are included here.
Part sensationalist crime literature, part police and witness reports, and part accounts of judicial proceedings, these four volumes were originally published in 1764 and cover over sixty years of crimes in England, from 1700 to 1764.
Many of the most important documents of the Ossian phenomenon have hitherto only been accessible in a handful of British research libraries. This collection brings these documents for the first time to a wider audience.