The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews, from Capt. Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Capt. John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, Etc. who were hang'd at Execution Dock, June 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murther, and afterwards hang'd in Chains between Blackwall and Deptford : giving a more full and true Account than any yet Published, of all their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of Living. Adorn'd with Twenty Beautiful Cuts, being the Representation of each Pirate : To which is prefix'd, An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy
A 1725 London pirate history by Charles Johnson, printed for publisher Edward Midwinter, covering notorious pirates and their crews from Captain Avery to John Gow. Its pictures are small woodcut-style portraits, each framed within a rectangle, showing a single pirate standing with a cutlass, pistol or hat and often a ship or coastline behind him. A designer might take from them the stiff, frontal poses and bold black-and-white line work of early eighteenth-century popular print.
