Broadside (visible area 482 x 355 mm). large woodcut of Newgate scaffold and surrouding area with a large crowd, smaller woodcuts of Blakesley, and interior and exterior views of Mr. Burdon's house, text printed within 5 columns. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). 

The text and poem cover the particulars of Mr. Blakesley's execution by hanging, his attempted escape (hitting his jailer with a candlestick), the testimony of two city policemen, a hairdresser, and his own father, and the jury's guilty ruling. An unusually large and profusely illustrated 19th-century crime broadside.