John Pass or Paas (c.1783–1832) was an English engraver and murder victim.

Life

Pass was an established copper plate engraver in

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, London. He made plates for ''The History, Civil and Ecclesiastical, and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester'' (1798–1801) by

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the London bookseller, who was from

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, knew him at the end of the 18th century, and took him on for illustrations of his ''Encyclopaedia Londoniensis''. Pass produced plates for volume 13 of the work. John Paas (name used legally) was murdered in

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by James Cook, in a criminal case that attracted wide attention. He was aged 49, a partner in the firm Paas & Co. of

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, London, engravers. He was in Leicester as a travelling salesman of specialist hardware. Cook, a printer and bookbinder, was exhibited on a

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after being hanged, the last British criminal to be so treated.

Paas & Co.

The firm of C. and A. Paas & Co. was in business at various Holborn addresses in the second half of the 18th century. One of the partners, Cornelius Paas, an engraver from Germany, came to London around 1765.

Notes

External links

British Library, Untold lives blog, ''Credit Crunch leads to Murder'' 18 October 2011
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pass, John 1832 deaths English engravers Male murder victims People murdered in England Year of birth uncertain