Tom Gallon

Title: Tatterley: the story of a dead man. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Gallon, Tom; 1897. viii. 330 p.; 8 . 012626.m.8.

Reproduction of the original: Tinman by Tom Gallon

In all that I shall set down here, in telling the strange story of my poor life, I shall write nothing but the truth. It has been written in many odd times and in many odd places: in a prison cell, on paper stamped with the prison mark; on odd scraps of paper in a lonely garret under the stars, with a candle-end for light-and I, poor and old and shivering-scrawling hastily because the time was so short. I have been at once the meanest and the greatest of all men; the meanest-because all men shuddered at the mere mention of my name, and at the thought of what I had done; the greatest-because one woman loved me, and taught me that beyond that nothing else mattered.