The Elizabethan Underworld. A collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law. The text prepared with notes and an introduction by A.V. Judges. With 20 illustrations.

The Connoisseur’s Library. Plates printed on better paper. First edition. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Highway to the Spital-house, by Robert Copland; A Manifest Detection of Dice-Play, by Gilbert Walker; The Fraternity of Vagabonds, by John Awdeley; A Caveat for Common Cursitorss, by Thomas Harman; A Notable Discovery of Cozenage, by Robert Greene; The Second Part of Cony-catching, by Robert Greene; The Third Part of Cony-catching, by Robert Greene; A Disputation between a He-cony-catcher and a She-cony-catcher, by Robert Greene; The Black Book’s Messenger, by Robert Greene; The Black Dog of Newgate, by Luke Hutton; Luke Hutton’s Lamentation; The Testament of Laurence Lucifer, by Thomas Middleton; The Bellman of London, by Thomas Dekker; Lantern and Candlelight, by Thomas Dekker; O per se O, by Thomas Dekker; Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell, by Samuel Rid; The Counter’s Commonwealth, by William Fennor; The Song of a Constable, by James Gyffon; Notes to the Text; Glossary; Index.