Softcover. No. 9 in the Mellifont Celebrated Crime Series. Being the historical and legendary accounts of one of England's best-known old-time criminals, as well as its most notorious prison breaker. The tragic figure of Jack Sheppard, who met his death on the scaffold when he was scarcely more than a boy. He was lured into ways of crime by the influence of the scoundrel Jonathan Wild, and in his short but meteoric career he never entirely lost the sympathy and even admiration of his contemporaries. 96pp. Reprint published at 9d. - the sl. larger 1st edn was published at 3d. With the usual browned pp., clear protective tape to sp. o/w Vg.