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Title: West Port murders; or, an authentic account of the atrocious murders committed by Burke and his associates, containing a full account of all the extraordinary circumstances connected with them. Also, a report of the trial of Burke and M'Dougal, with a description of the execution of Burke, his confessions, and memoirs of his accomplices, including the proceedings against Hare, &c.
Description: Disbound book. Engraved frontispiece (artist, George Andrew Lutenor; engraver, Thomas Clerk). Illustrated with engravings. Includes drawings by Walter Geikie. Has broadside titled "The West Port Murders" tipped in (14 cm.).
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: A laconic narrative of the life and death of James Wilson, known by the name of Daft Jamie; to which is added, a few anecdotes relative to him and his old friend Boby Awl, an idiot who strolled about Edinburgh for many years
Description: Chapbook that has been disbound and mounted in a window-pane style. Illustrated.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Letter to the Lord advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders; with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects
Description: Pamphlet, disbound and mounted.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 33. Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers : measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of various individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, presenting an extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 27. An account of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 28th day of January, 1829, for murder : with the confession he made while under sentence of death
Description: Tract printed on laid paper. Disbound and mounted. Illustrated title page. At head of title: Cheap tracts, no. 16.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 26. Authentic confessions of William Burk, who was executed at Edinburgh, on 28th January 1829, for murder, emited before the sheriff-substitute of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr Reid, Catholic priest, and others, in the jail, on 3d and 22d January
Description: Disbound pamphlet. Illustrated. Portrait of William Burke appears on the title page. An illustration of Daft Jamie appears on page 7.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 19. Execution : a full and true account of the last speech and dying declaration of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh this morning, for murder, and his body given for dissection; also of his conduct and behaviour since his condemnation, and on the scaffold
Description: Illustrated broadside. Cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 36. Observations on a late pamphlet by Mr. Stone, on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, &c.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 34. Answer to "Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers, &c. By Thomas Stone, Esq.," &c.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 28. Riot at Dumfries! Hare's arrival : a full and particular account of the reception of William Hare, one of the West Port murderers, at Dumfries, on Friday morning last, on his way to Ireland!
Description: Cut in two and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 15. Subscription for the benefit of James Gray and his wife : a letter to the editor of the Caledonian Mercury
Description: Letter signed "Candidus." An appeal for donors to sign the subscription books and donate sums of money to the aid of James Gray and his wife, dated "Edinburgh, 15th January, 1829." With an advertisment for "a full and correct report of the trial of Burke and M'Dougal." Advertisement is dated "22 January, 1829." Printed on the recto and verso of a single leaf.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 02. [Autograph letter signed by William Burke and dated January 27, 1829]
Description: Letter handwritten by William Burke while he was in jail awaiting execution.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 37. Letter on the prejudices of the great in science and philosophy against phrenology; addressed to the editor of The Edinburgh Weekly Journal
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 35. A rejoinder to the answer of George Combe, esq. to "observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers."
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 32. Phrenological observations on the cerebral development of William Burke, executed for murder at Edinburgh, on 28th January, 1829, and on the development of William Hare, his accomplice
Description: Article from The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, v.5 (May 1828-April 1829), pages 549-572
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 29. West Port murders : characters of Burke, Hare, and Dr. Knox ... being part of a conversation between North, Tickler, and the Ettrick Shepherd
Description: Disbound and mounted.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Reflections suggested by the murders recently committed at Edinburgh, &c. being an epistle to the right Hon. Robert Peel, M. P. Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which, Burke's iniquitous practices are traced to their real source, and an attempt made to indicate measures whereby the recurrence of similar enormities may be for ever prevented
Description: Disbound pamphlet.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 11. Elegiac lines on the tragical murder of poor Daft Jamie
Description: Illustrated broadside poem. At head of title is illustration of a barrel with inscription: "Alas! Jamie's pickled." There is an introductory poem following the title that is not present in the first edition. There is a note at bottom advertising the publication of the second edition of "A laconic narrative of the life and death of poor Jamie."
Language: English
ID: RM1005P069R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 0. Contents
Description: Typed table of contents for The Resurrectionists, supplied by the library of The New York Academy of Medicine.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 01. Burke, the murderer
Description: Tipped in newspaper clipping concerning the death of Helen M'Dougal, alleged accomplice of Burke and Hare, in New South Wales, Australia.
ID: RM1001P003R00A
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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