Horrible! shocking! : particulars of the most shocking discovery made on Sunday evening last, at a house known by the sign of the Queen of Bohemia, at the end of Wychstreet; where a vast number of mangled human bodies were discovered, some in tubs, as if in pickle, &c.

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Lewis Walpole Library > Horrible! shocking! : particulars of the most shocking discovery made on Sunday evening last, at a house known by the sign of the Queen of Bohemia, at the end of Wychstreet; where a vast number of mangled human bodies were discovered, some in tubs, as if in pickle, &c.

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Title: Horrible! shocking! : particulars of the most shocking discovery made on Sunday evening last, at a house known by the sign of the Queen of Bohemia, at the end of Wychstreet; where a vast number of mangled human bodies were discovered, some in tubs, as if in pickle, &c.
Published / Created: [not before April 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Davenport, Printer, George's Court
Description: According to accounts in Gentleman’s Magazine and the Times (cited by Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain 1758-1834 (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995)), this event occurred in April 1801.
In two columns with the title centered above both and the imprint centered below both; the columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 33. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 32 x 20 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 3

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Broadsides
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Mass murder
Mass murder investigation
Subjects: Mass murder > England
Mass murder investigation > England

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Orbis Record: 10502666
Object ID (OID): 17124792