Sketches of the Life of William Stuart, the First and Most Celebrated Counterfeiter of Connecticut ….
Bridgeport: Printed and Published for the Author, 1854.
Price: $600.00
About the item
First edition. Woodcut title portrait. 223, [1] pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt title on front cover. Despite foxing throughout text, an attractive copy in the original cloth. Howes S1104; Sabin 93218.
Item #315089
An amusing chronicle of petty crime and punishment in Connecticut. One of the author's many confessed crimes was to overpay for purchases with forged banknotes and pocket the change.
