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London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., printers, Whitefriars--T.p. verso.
"Two shillings"--Spine.
Date of publication estimated from date of publishers' advertisements after text.
Publisher's advertisements appear before and after text. Advertisements after the text dated May, 1886.
The autobiography of a thief -- Jack of all trades -- A hero and a martyr.
In publisher's binding, paper covered boards; advertisement for Pears' soap on back cover; advertisements on pastedowns and flyleaves.
According to Sean Grass in The Self in the Cell, Narrating the Victorian Prisoner, p. 101: “He is careful in The Autobiography of a Thief to imitate and reveal the prison’s explicit power to control private narrative and to shape the trust about prisoner identity and desire.”