London.The Executioner's City

Great Britain: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006. Hardback. First Edition First Printing. Tyburn may be the best known site of execution in London, but as the authors reveal in their new book. the capital could be aptly named the 'executioner's city', so many were the places where execution took place. This book ranges from medieval times to the last century and provides a colourful and grimly entertaining exploration of these numerous sites. The main execution grounds after Tyburn were Smithfield, the Tower, Tower Hill and Newgate prison. Certain places were reserved for the execution of particular types of felon. A powerful evocation of the dark side of London's history, this book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles decorated London Bridge. A king and more than one queen, heretics, archbishops, pirates, poisoners, plotters and murderers met death by hanging, beheading, burning or boiling in London, an on most occasions the crowd roared its approval. The authors book is a vivid picture of capital punishment - from both the victim and the executioner's point of view - in a capital that seems to have thrived on executions. 248 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.