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(HAYES, CATHERINE.) A Narrative of the Barbarous and unheard of Murder of Mr. John Hayes, by Catherine his Wife, Thomas, Billings, and Thomas Wood,on the 1st of March at Night. 32 pages, including engraved frontispiece showing the murderers with the victim's corpse and severed head. bound with:The Life of Catherine Hayes. Engraved frontispiece showing scenes of the murder and its aftermath. 40 pages. Together, 2 works in one volume. 8vo, 180x115 mm, 19th-century cloth; contents toned with occasional soiling and minor dampstaining, ink scrawls on verso of frontispiece in first work slightly showing through on recto, bottom of title imprint cropped. London: Thomas Warner et al., 1726; John Applebee et al., 1726
Popular accounts of a notorious early 18th-century English murder case, in which Catherine disposed of her husband with the help of her 2 lovers.also bound with: The History of the remarkable Life of John Sheppard, containing a particular Account of his many Robberies and Escapes. [4] (of [8]), 56 pages; lacks preliminaries A2.3, with split between title and A4. London: John Applebee et al., [1724]. Formerly attributed to Daniel Defoe; see Furbank and Owens, Defoe De-Attributions 468.
