You are looking at a fine facsimile broadside printed on good quality laid effect paper 

Life, trial, and execution of James Mackey, the well known Cripple drawn by dogs: who suffered on Monday, March 3d, 1828 at Durham, for the wilful murder of Miss Ann Somerville

Fine facsimile of the 1828 rare execution broadside - 2 columns of verse followed by an account of the trial - with 2 wood cuts - Mackey a native of Whitehaven had been injured in a mining accident and was subsequently conveyed in a cart on wheels pulled by dogs - he murdered Ann Somerville in Bishop-Wearmouth in Sunderland in 1827 and was hanged in Durham March 3rd 1828 - 

Facsimile reproduced approximately lifesize [395mm x 195mm + wide margins] - only 2 copies are known of the remarkably scarce original broadside one if which is in Harvard's collection

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