'An Account of a Most Horrid Murder'. 'Committed in the Town...

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'An Account of a Most Horrid Murder'. 'Committed in the Town of Redruth, on Thursday Evening the 4th of March, 1824, on the Body of a Lad about seven years old, named Benjamin George....Commited by his Sister Amey George...,' small broadsheet, 222cm x 155mm at widest point, with some border excised to top LHS, but textually complete, Stephens, Printer, Bookbinder, &c, Penryn, [1824]. With a song broadside about said murder, composed of four-line stanzas over two columns on a single folio sheet, 328mm x 193mm at widest point, Brokenshire, Printer, Bookbinder, &c, Boscawen-Street, Truro, [1824]. Two scarce survivours, in comparably vg condition. (2)

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25th May 23 at 10am BST

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