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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 21. Mansie Waugh's dream, concerning the execution of Burke : part first
Language: English
ID: RM1007P093R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 22. Mansie Waugh's dream, concerning the execution of Burke : part second
Language: English
ID: RM1007P095R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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