The Literature of Roguery by CHANDLER, Frank Wadleigh - 1958

New York: Burt Franklin, 1958. Reprint of 1907 original . Hardcover. Good. Originally part of the Types of English Literature series edited by W. A. Neilson. Burt Franklin Bibliographical Series IX. Two volumes in one: vii, 584p. 24cm. Slight wear to extremities. Spots on top edge of text block. Pages clean.

Contents: Scope and Foreign Sources; English Picaresque Origins; The Anatomies of Roguery; The Criminal Biographies; Rogues of Elizabethan and Restoration Fiction; Roguery in the Drama; The Picaresque Novel in the Eighteenth Century; Romantic Roguery from Scott to Bulwer; Adventures Afloat and Ashore; The Rogue in his Social Environment; Sympathetic and Satiric Rogue; Roguery in Recent Fiction; The Literature of Crime Detection.