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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: 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: 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: 17. Confessions, lamentations, & reflections of William Burke, late of Portsburgh, who is to be executed at Edinburgh, on the 28th January, 1829, for murder, and his body given for public dissection
Description: Ballad, illustrated. Cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 24. Hare's dream! : describing the apparitions of Burke and others, which appeared to him while in the Calton Jail
Description: Ballad, cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 23. Elegy on William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh, Jan. 28, 1829.
Description: Illustrated ballad. Cut and mounted.
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: 13. Lines supposed to have been written by Mrs. Wilson, Daft Jamie's mother, on ascertaining the way and manner her son had been basely murdered in the West Port, by William Burke and William Hare
Description: Cut and mounted ballad. At bottom is note advertising the first edition of the chapbook "A laconic narrative of the life and death of James Wilson."
Language: English
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: 03. William Burke--a new song
Description: Tipped in ballad, illustrated. Undated.
ID: RM1001P006R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 07. William Burke's murders in the Westport
Description: Mounted ballad.
Language: English
ID: RM1005P061R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 08. The Westport murders : a new song
Description: Mounted ballad, illustrated.
Language: English
ID: RM1005P063R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 09. The recent murders : a new song
Language: English
ID: RM1005P065R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 14. Life and transactions of the murderer Burke, and his associates
Description: Illustrated broadside giving an account of the trial of William Burke. Includes a biographical sketch of Burke.
Language: English
ID: RM1006P076R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 16. William Burke's confession
Description: Illustrated ballad. Mounted.
Language: English
ID: RM1006P081R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 18. Execution of the notorious William Burke the murderer, who supplied Dr. Knox with subjects
Description: Engraved print.
Language: English
ID: RM1006P087R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 20. William Burk's execution
Description: Illustrated ballad, mounted.
Language: English
ID: RM1007P091R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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