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 - Judges, A. V. (Arthur Valentine), 1898-; Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1930)
The highway to the spitalhouse (1535-6) / Robert Copland -- A manifest detection of dice-play (1552) / Gilbert Walker (?) -- The fraternity of vagabonds (1561) / John Awdeley -- A caveat for common cursitors (1566) / Thomas Harman -- A notable discovery of cozenage (1591). The second part of cony-catching (1591). The third part of cony-catching (1592) / Robert Greene -- A disputation between a he-cony-catcher and a she-cony-catcher (1592) / Robert Greene -- The black book's messenger (1592) / Robert Greene -- The black dog of Newgate (ca. 1596) / Luke Hutton -- Luke Hutton's lamentation (1596) --The testament of Laurence Lucifer (being a part of The black book, 1604) / Thomas Middleton (?) --The bellman of London (1608). Lantern and candlelight (1608) / Thomas Dekker -- O per se O (1612) / Thomas Dekker (?) -- Martin Markall, beadle of Bridewell (1610) / Samuel Rid (?) --The counter's commonwealth (1617) / William Fennor -- The song of a constable (1626) / James Gyffon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LC copy from the library of Rouben Mamoulian. With stamp mark of former owner Robert D. Andrews.
Keywords: Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Crime -- England -- Early works to 1800.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century