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1 y separately published work icon Lost and Found; or Light in The Prison. A Narrative with Original Letters, of a Convict, condemned for forgery (International) assertion James Grove , Benjamin Bensley (editor), London : W. Wells Gardner , 1859 6925594 1859 single work non-fiction

"The painstaking researches of Mr J.W. Earnshaw of Sydney have revealed that the convicts as James Grove, a well-to-do die sinker and engraver in Birmingham, who, being then 33 years of age, was sentenced at Warwick Gaol Delivery on 23 March, 1802, to life imprisonment for engraving a copper plate, which could be used for forging Bank of England notes" (Ferguson, 1851-1900, p.308).

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