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NUREMBERG TRIAL. STEINIGER PA. ed. P. A.
Der N�rnberger Prozess. Aus den Protokollen Dokumenten und Materialien des Prozesses gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Milit�rgerichtshof. Ausgew�hlt und eingeleitet von Prof.Dr. P.A. Steiniger. 4th ed. 2 vols.
Berlin R�tten & Loening 1960 Or.cloth 318;612 pp. and plates. hardcover
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EICHMANN TRIAL.
Ha-Yo`ets ha-Mishpati le-Memshalah neged Eichmann. The Attorney general against Eichmann. Opening address.
Jerusalem 1961 Or. wrps. 198 pp. Illustrated. Hebrew. unknown
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EICHMANN TRIAL. LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL
The trial of Adolf Eichmann.
London 1962 Or. cloth. witj dustjacket XXVIII 324 pp. and 8 plates. First edition. hardcover
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EICHMANN TRIAL. SCHMORAK DOV B.
Sieben sagen aus. Zeugen im Eichmann-Prozess. Mit einer Einleitung von Peter Schier-Gribowsky.
Berlin-Grunewald 1962 Or.cloth. XXI 208 pp. hardcover
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EICHMANN TRIAL.
Eichmann interrogated. Transcripts from the archives of the Israeli police. Edited by Jochen von Lang in collaboration with Claus Sibyll. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Introduction by Avner W. Less.
New York 1983 Or. cloth with dustjacket XXII 293 pp. and 2 plates. hardcover
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EICHMANN TRIAL. LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL
The trial of Adolf Eichmann. With a new introduction by Richard Overy.
London Pimlico 2002 Or.wrps. XLIV 324 pp. and 8 plates. unknown
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PROCES DREYFUS.
La r�vision du proc�s Dreyfus � la cour de cassation. Compte Rendu st�nographique "in extenso" 27 28 et 29 octobre 1898.
Paris 1898 Cloth frontcover mounted 271 pp. Lipschutz 54. hardcover
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EICHMANN TRIAL. HAUSNER GIDEON
Justice in Jerusalem.
New York 1966 Or. cloth. with dustjacket XIII 528 pp. and 8 plates. First edition. In good condition. hardcover
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NUREMBERG TRIAL. MONNERAY HENRI ed.
La pers�cution des Juifs en France et dans les autres pays de l'ouest pr�sent�e par la France � Nuremberg. Recueil de documents publi� sous la direction de Henri Monneray Substitut au Tribunal Militaire International. Pr�face de Ren� Cassin. Introduction de Edgar Faure. S�rie 'Documents' No 2.
Paris 1947 Or. wrps. 430 pp. Illustrated. French. Pages unopened. In good condition. unknown
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TRIAL: Rev. Niel DOUGLAS
The trial of the Rev. Niel Douglas before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 26th May 1817 for sedition. Taken in shorthand by John Dow Esq. W.S.
Edinburgh: John Robertson. 1817. 8vo. with a fine etched portrait frontispiece of Douglas 2 50pp. entirely uncut and with the original printed upper wrapper preserved recently well bound in cloth spine gilt lettered. A very good copy. First edition. In spite of publishing two extremely loyal odes on the King's illness and recovery in 1789 in 1817 Douglas was indicted for sedition for drawing a parallel between George III and Nebuchadnezzar the Prince Regent and Belshazar and representing the House of Commons as a den of thieves. The trial turned into something of a farce and a unanimous verdict of acquittal was returned. Edinburgh: John Robertson. 1817 hardcover
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TRIAL: Joseph POWELL
The trial of Joseph Powell the fortune-teller at the Sessions-House Clerkenwell October 31 1807; taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney: with an appendix and notes containing various original letters and other documents referred to in the trial. By the Society for the Suppression of Vice.
London printed for F. and C. Rivington and others 1808. 8vo. 28pp. first and last leaves lightly soiled a publishers' slip relating to the distribution of the pamphlet tipped in in old plain wrappers. A very good copy. First edition. 'In 1807 Joseph Powell was tried and subsequently convicted for fortune-telling under the Vagrancy Act. Described in the court record as a 'rogue and a vagabond' he had not only imposed himself on 'credulous persons' and duped servants out of their 'last shillings' he had also taken lascivious advantage of women who had consulted him to find out whether or not they would ever have children. In one such instance Powell practiced his fraudulent art via correspondence. As the prosecutor in the case relates: 'One of his letters in particular seems to have been addressed to a female not of the lowest class who stated herself to be married and who wished to be informed whether she should have any children and the copy of this letter answers that she is certainly destined to have children if she takes the means but not by her husband; that it must be by some other person; that he shall be happy himself to be that person and that he has no doubt their endeavours will be propitious to the object she has at heart. He then goes on to invite her to come the next day when he promises to have his place clear as well for comfort as safety.' Mr. Powell�s prices for his services ranged from half a crown to five guineas but in the above instance the prosecutor states: 'So strong was his amorous propensity on this occasion that he tells the lady if she agrees to his proposal that he will give her as much information as he should charge another person five guineas for but that he will remit the five guineas in her case!' Mr. Powell was sentenced to six months imprisonment.' Mimi Matthews 19th Century Fortune-Telling: From the Drawing Room to the Court Room>. Powell's usual prices for his services ranged from half a crown to five guineas. 'One of his letters in particular seems to have been addressed to a female not of the lowest class who stated herself to be married and who wished to be informed whether she should have any children; and the copy of this letter answers that she is certainly destined to have children if she takes the means but not by her husband; that it must be by some other person;> that he shall be happy himself to be that person and that he has no doubt their endeavours will be propitious to the object she has at heart. He then goes on to invite her to come the next day when he promises to have his place clear as well for comfort as safety.' Powell was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. London, printed for F. and C. Rivington [and others] 1808 unknown
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TRIAL: Sir Edward CROSBIE
An accurate and impartial narrative of the apprehension trial & execution on the 5th of June 1798 of Sir Edward William Crosbie Bart. including a copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the court-martial which tried him: together with authentic documents relating to the whole of his conduct and the proceedings against him. Published in justice to his memory by his family.
Bath printed by R. Cruttwell . Dublin re-printer by William Porter. 1802. 8vo. xvi 110pp. wanting the half-title recently well bound in cloth spine gilt lettered. A very good copy. No earlier edition recorded. Sir Edward William Crosbie 1755-1798 holds the distinction of being the first United Irishman to be executed for treason after the 1798 rebellion at Carlow Ireland. His younger brother Richard was Ireland's first balloonist. After the 1798 rebellion Crosbie was executed for leading the United Irishmen from his house Viewmount into Carlow. However there seems to be some evidence to suggest that Crosbie's conviction was a miscarriage of justice. The present 'narrative' apparently put into print by Sir Edward's family and friends certainly raises considerable doubt as to Crosbie's culpability. Bath, printed by R. Cruttwell ..... Dublin re-printer by William Porter. 1802 hardcover
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TRIAL: Andrew M'KINLEY
The trial of Andrew M'Kinley before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 18th day of July 1817 for administering unlawful oaths.
Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Longman &c. London. 1818. 8vo. 4 70pp. first and final leaves a little soiled the title-page more so well bound in later but not recent maroon cloth spine gilt lettered with a little wear to extremities. A good copy nonetheless. First edition. One of the infamous Scottish treason trials. M'Kinley was eventually acquitted the jury finding the charges against him 'not proven'. Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh [and] Longman (&c.) London. 1818 hardcover
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TRIAL: Duchess of KINGSTON
The trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for bigamy. before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in Westminster-Hall in full Parliament on Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; on the last of which days the said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was found guilty.
Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. folio 4 176pp. complete with the initial licence leaf a good wide-margined copy sometime in the library of the Los Angeles Board of Law library> with its bookplate on front pastedown and perforated blind-stamp on title-page bound in the 20th century in cloth-backed marbled boards. First edition. The official transcript of this celebrated society trial. The self-styled Duchess of Kingston was a coarse and flighty woman who lived a life of scandal dissipation and social decadence. She was married secretly in 1744 to the Hon. Augustus John Hervey but they were soon separated and had no further contact. Twenty years later she married the Duke of Kingston while still married to Hervey. The Duke died after only a few months leaving his wife the whole of the estate on the condition that she remained a widow. Hervey meanwhile wished to remarry and was anxious to prove his first marriage in order to file for divorce. She was tried by her peers for bigamy and found guilty; she fled to the continent and resumed her scandalous lifestyle in Paris Rome and St. Petersburg where she set up a brandy distillery. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Charles Bathurst, 1776 hardcover
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TRIAL: Andrew YETTS & William YETTS
Report of the trial between Francis Wheatley William Woodrow and William Wiseman plaintiffs and Andrew Yetts & William Yetts defendants; at Guildhall London on the 15th of January 1823 before Chief Justice Abbot and a special jury.
Yarmouth: printed and sold by G. Hazard Chapel-street. n.d. 1823. 8vo. 24pp. lower margins rather creased and stained title-page soiled last page foxed some minor edge fraying well bound fairly recently in quarter calf over marbled boards spine lettered gilt. First only edition. The case involved a collision between a small brig of 70 tons called the Norfolk and a sloop of about the same tonnage called the August in Yarmouth Roads off the Norfolk coast. The court found for the defendants. Yarmouth: printed and sold by G. Hazard, Chapel-street. n.d. [1823] hardcover
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TRIAL: Arundel COKE
The tryal and condemnation of Arundel Coke alias Cooke Esq; and of John Woodburne labourer for felony in slitting the nose of Edward Crispe Gent. Contrary to the 22 & 23 Car. II. cap. 1. intitled An Act to prevent malicious Maiming and Wounding; who were found guilty at the Assizes held before the Right Honourable Sir Peter King Knt. Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Bury St. Edmonds sic Tuesday the 13th of March 1721 and received sentence the day following.
London: printed for John Darby . and Daniel Midwinter. 1722. folio 16 17 - 18 17 - 37 1pp. final leaf bound in reverse order and with small marginal restoration two or three brown spots on imprimatur leaf and title-page well bound recently in cloth spine lettered in gilt. A very good large copy. First edition. A minor but interesting landmark case in which the two accused were convicted under legislation known as the Coventry Act> which had made wounding and maiming to be a felony and thus a capital offence. Coke and Woodburne were both convicted and were hanged at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk Coke at his own request at 4 o'clock in the morning. They were the first to be executed under the Coventry Act.> i.e. 1722. London: printed for John Darby, ..... and Daniel Midwinter. 1722 hardcover
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TRIAL: James MACKCOULL
Memoir of the life and trial of James Mackcoull of Moffat who died in the county jail of Edinburgh on the 22d December 1820; containing a full account of his trial before the Jury Court and High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh for robbing the branch of the Paisley Union Bank at Glasgow of twenty thousand pounds. Illustrated with notes anecdotes and a portrait. With an appendix containing Mr. Donovan's Journal from Glasgow to London in trace of the robbery and other curious papers.
Edinburgh: John Anderson Jun. 1822. 8vo engraved portrait of Mackcoull vii i 317pp. including a folding table with 4pp. of publishers' advertisements bound in at the beginning efficiently but not beautifully bound fairly recently in cloth-backed boards spine simply lettered. A very good uncut copy. First edition. The fascinating almost gripping anatomy of a big-time bank robbery �20000 was by any standards a massive amount of money. James Mackcoull was born in London in 1763 the son of a respectable pocket-book maker and small shopkeeper but of a disreputable mother. Of James's sister and two brothers one brother was hanged for theft in 1786 and the sister was a habitual and notorious thief like her mother. The oldest of the boys John moved in and out of crime but ended up in Worthing where he opened the Apollo Library and lived in relative respectability. James embarked on and continued a life of crime. For the bank robbery in Scotland he was sentenced to death a sentence later to be commuted. The case and this description throws light not only on the criminal underclass of late Georgian Edinburgh but also on Scottish banking systems and methods of remitting large sums of money. Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1822 hardcover
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American College of Trial Lawyers
Anatomy of a Patent Case
2009-02-04. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1570188572q ISBN : 1570188572 9781570188572
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PROCESO FERRER
El Proceso Ferrer: Extracto de la causa seguida contra Francisco Ferrer Guardia con motivo de los sucesos de Barcelona en 1909
Madrid: Imp. de A. Marzo 1911.- 32 p.; 4º 23 cm. POLÃTICA ESPAÑOLA DESDE 1833 A 1936 Libro en español Imp. de A. Marzo paperback
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Mike Trial
Black & Gold: The End of the Sixties
2011-12-01. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1936688174n ISBN : 1936688174 9781936688173
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TRIAL: Prof. John White WEBSTER
Report of the trial of Prof. John W. Webster indicted for the murder of Dr. George Parkman before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts holden at Boston on Tuesday March 19 1850. Phonographic report by Dr. James W. Stone.
Boston: Phillips Sampson & Company. 1850. 8vo. vi 3 - 314 2 2pp. including both the advertisement leaf and the final errata leaf with extensive errata original printed wrappers entirely uncut very minor wear and edge fraying. Overall a fine crisp copy. First edition. John White Webster 1793-1850 was a professor of chemistry and geology at Harvard Medical College. 'On November 23 1849 Dr. George Parkman was murdered. After an investigation Dr. John White Webster was accused of the murder on January 26 1850. The Webster-Parkman Murder trial was the 19th century equivalent of the 'Case of the Century' and has been widely cited as one of the earliest uses of forensic evidence to identify a body. As the remains of Dr. Parkman had been partially cremated dental evidence and bone fragments were used to verify that they were Dr. Parkman. The case was widely publicized in newspapers particularly as Webster was also a professor at Harvard University. After a lengthy trial where under current Massachusetts law Webster could not testify in his own defense the jury was instructed by the principal judge and close relative of the victim that they 'Must come back with a guilty verdict.' The most important factor about the Webster case is that a great body of documentary testimony was either not used by Webster's lawyers or was denied admission into Webster's defense.' Wikipedia. The verdict and Webster's execution a few months later were widely criticised. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company. 1850 unknown
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TRIAL: Joseph GERRALD
The trial of Joseph Gerrald delegate from the London Corresponding Society to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 3d 10th 13th and 14th of March 1794. For sedition. Taken in short-hand by Mr. Ramsey.
Edinburgh: printed for James Robertson . and sold in London by D.I. Eaton and others n.d. 1794. 8vo. engraved portrait frontispiece of Gerrald by Kay the engraving a little stained and foxed 256pp. in contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards with loss of a patch of the paper on lower board extremities rubbed or worn else a good sound copy. First edition. 'None of these cases i.e. the Scottish martyrs made such an impression at the time or has sunk so deeply into the heart of posterity as Gerrald's - not however so much from his superior innocence as from his character and heroism. He was an Englishman a gentleman and a scholar; a man of talent eloquence and fidelity to his principles and associates; the rashness of whose enthusiasm in the promotion of what appeared to him to be the cause of liberty though not untinctured by ambition or vanity was the natural result of the political fire which at that time kindled far less inflammable breasts. The purity of his intentions was above all suspicion.' Lord Cockburn: An examination of the Trials for Sedition which have hitherto occurred in Scotland> vol.II p.41.' Ferguson I p.70 Joseph Gerrald 1763-1796 was born in the West Indies but when a child was brought to England by his parents. From 1788 he engaged in politics and took a prominent part in the agitation for parliamentary reform. In 1793 he was sent along with Maurice Margerot as a delegate from the London Corresponding Society to the 'British Convention of the Delegates of the People' assembled at Edinburgh. The avowed object of the convention was to obtain universal suffrage and annual parliaments. It had 'secret committees' and 'conventions of emergency' its members addressed each other as 'citizens' and generally adopted the language of the French revolutionists. Gerrald and Margerot were almost inevitably arrested for sedition and both were convicted and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. Gerrald died of consumption in New South Wales five months after his arrival in March 1796 at the age of 33. Edinburgh: printed for James Robertson ... and sold in London by D.I. Eaton (and others), n.d. [1794] hardcover
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TRIAL: James CAIRNS et al.
Report of the trial of Cairns Turnbull Smith and Lamb before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on Monday the 18th of December 1837 for the crimes of mobbing and rioting and assault committed at Hawick on the occasion of the late election of a Member of Parliament for the county of Roxburgh. By Archibald Swinton Esq. Advocate.
Edinburgh: Thomas Clark law bookseller. 1838. 8vo. 40pp. old and faint dampstain on first two leaves contemporary dark green half roan spine lettered gilt. A good copy. First edition. The defendants were James Cairns stocking-maker; John Rae needle-maker; James Turnbull stocking-maker; William Turnbull stocking-maker; James Smith Stocking-maker; and Stewart Lamb also a stocking-maker; all of Hawick in the county of Roxburgh. Cairns Lamb and James Turnbull were found guilty and sentenced to terms of imprisonment. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark, law bookseller. 1838 unknown
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TRIAL: Henry DUNDAS Lord Viscount MELVILLE
The trial by impeachment of Henry Lord Viscount Melville for high crimes and misdemeanors before the House of Peers in Westminster Hall between the 29th of April and the 17th of May 1806. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and political character of His Lordship and a complete account of the proceedings in Parliament relative to the charges on which the impeachment was founded.
London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme. 1806. 8vo. engraved portrait frontispiece iv xcv 1 8 3 - 7 1 9 - 120 121 - 230 121 - 378 8pp. complete in all respects contemporary or a little later half calf over marbled boards neatly rebacked with a gilt spine raised bands and label. An excellent copy with the 19th century armorial bookplate of William Blair of Blair> and the binder's ticket of J. Carss & Co. of Glasgow.> First edition. Melville a former Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty was impeached for misuse of Navy funds but was acquitted of all charges. Melville's was the last English impeachment trial conducted in the House of Lord it was presided over by Lord Chancellor Thomas Erskine. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1806 hardcover
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TRIAL: ARMSTRONG VAIR ALSTON
Report of the trial by jury David Armstrong against George Buchan Vair and Gideon Alston for sending a challenge to fight a duel. Taken in short-hand. With an appendix of letters and other documents.
Edinburgh: printed for W. and C. Tait. 1823. 8vo. iv 134 2pp. recent marbled boards lettered on spine. A very good copy. First edition. George Buchan Vair a spirit-dealer in Leith who was apparently engaged to be married to a Miss Dinah Grive 'a lady in Dumfries' objected to inappropriate attentions to Dinah paid her by David Armstrong writer in Dumfries. Vair alleges that as Armstrong had caused the lady to break off her engagement he was entitled to challenge him to a duel. Armstrong refused the challenge and won the court case and was awarded �20 in damages. The duel which Vair had proposed would have taken place 'at the back of the Old Abbey of Linclouden a place where there can be no interruption' was thus aborted. Edinburgh: printed for W. and C. Tait. 1823 hardcover
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TRIAL: William Innell CLEMENT
Report of the action Wright v. Clement for certain libels published in Cobbett's Political Register; tried in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster on Friday the 10th of December 1819 before Lord Chief Justice Abbott and a special jury.Taken in short hand by Mr. George Farquharson. To which are prefixed a preface the documents referred to and notes.
London: J. Wright. 1819. 8vo. xxii 2 53 1pp. title-page and final leaf rather browned bound in 20th century red half cloth over marbled boards spine with title label. Slightly shaken but still a good copy. First edition. 'John Wright formerly associated with William Cobbett in the publishing of the Parliamentary Debates sued Clement a London bookseller for the sale of issues of Cobbett's Weekly Register> which Wright charged contained two libels on him. Cobbett was then in America and could not be brought to trial so action was taken against the distributor of the paper. The verdict was for the defendant on the first libel; and on the second for the plaintiff with a fine of �500.' McCoy loc.cit. London: J. Wright. 1819 hardcover
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TRIAL: James HILL
The trial at large of James Hill; otherwise James Hind; otherwise James Actzen: for feloniously wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the rope-house in His Majesty's Dock-Yard at Portsmouth. Tried at the assize at Winchester on Thursday March 6 1777. Before the honorable Sir William Henry Ashhurst Knt. one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench; and Sir Beaumont Hotham Knt. one of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer.
London: sold by G. Kearsly . and Martha Gurney. n.d. 1777. folio 40pp. well bound in 19th century dark green half roan gilt. First edition: uncommon. James Hill 1752-1777 known as 'John the painter' was a young criminal who seemed to have had something of a penchant for crimes of arson most particularly carried out in His Majesty's Dockyards i.e. in Bristol and Plymouth where he actually failed. He succeeded at Portsmouth however having been promised �300 by a Mr. Silan Dean although he received only twelve French crowns. He was duly convicted sentenced to death and hanged at the Dock gate in Portsmouth. It seems by his own account that he had spent about two years in Virginia 'as an adventurer to seek his fortune' before returning to England in 1775 to pursue a short but doomed career in burglary theft and arson. London: sold by G. Kearsly ..... and Martha Gurney. n.d. [1777] unknown
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TRIAL: Joseph BLACKBURN
Report of the trial of Mr. Joseph Blackburn attorney at law Leeds for forgery at the Yorkshire Lent Assizes 1815. With an appendix containing some details relative to the attempts that were made to obtain for him the extension of the Royal clemency; and some particulars respecting his execution &c.
Leeds: printed by B. Dewhirst. Sold by Davies and Booth. 1815. 8vo. 2 46pp. very minor paper staining on title-page and final couple of leaves recent marbled boards lettered on spine. A good copy. First and only edition. Blackburn was convicted of 'forging or causing to be forged the impression of a certain die or stamp used by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the management of the duty upon stamps to denote the payment of a certain duty imposed by an Act of the 48th of the King with intent thereby to defraud the public revenue'. His death sentence was upheld on appeal and a couple of weeks after his conviction he was duly executed leaving a widow and two young daughters. Leeds: printed by B. Dewhirst. Sold by Davies and Booth. 1815 hardcover
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TRIAL: HORNER v. LIDDIARD
A report of the case of Horner against Liddiard upon the question of what consent is necessary to the marriage of illegitimate minors; determined on the 24th May 1799 in the Consistorial Court of London by the Right Honourable Sir William Scott Chancellor of the Diocese: with an introductory essay upon the theory and the history of laws relating to illegitimate children and to the encouragement of marriage in general. By Alexander Croke.
London: printed by A. Strahan . for J. Butterworth. 1800. 8vo. 4 viii 189 3pp. including the final advertisement leaf tiny hole in C8 just touching a couple of letters recently well bound in cloth lettered in gilt a very good copy sometime in the library of Dr. Peter Laslett of Trinity College Cambridge> with his ownership label on blank margin of title. First edition: uncommon. Sweet & Maxwell I p.498 #7. This was the essay that brought Alexander Croke into public notice. After taking various law degrees at Oxford he had been admitted a member of the college of Advocates in November 1797. Sir William Scott afterwards Lord Stowell who had got to know Croke at Oxford employed him to report the Horner v Liddiard illegitimacy case. This Croke did adding a substantial essay on the treatment of illegitimacy in Europe since ancient times. Croke went on to be a judge in the vice-admiralty court in Nova Scotia and was knighted in 1816. London: printed by A. Strahan ... for J. Butterworth. 1800 hardcover
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TRIAL: Charles PINNEY
Trial of Charles Pinney Esq. in the Court of King's Bench on an information filed by His Majesty's Attorney-General charging him with neglect of duty in his office as Mayor of Bristol during the riots. Accurately transcribed from the short-hand report of Mr. Gurney.
Bristol: printed by Gutch and Martin and published by Cadel sic; Blackwood Edinburgh. 1833. 8vo. xxxviii 2 432pp. with an advertisement slip tipped in at the end announcing the publication of another account of the Bristol riots bound in the original linen boards neatly rebacked and labelled to match entirely uncut. A very good copy. First edition. Pinney was sworn in as mayor of Bristol in September 1831 and thus was in office during the riots that followed the rejection of the Reform Bill. the riots began when Sir Charles Wetherell the city recorder who was very unpopular because of his opposition to reform entered the city. It fell to Pinney as mayor to receive him. Crowds gathered to meet Wetherell and stoned the carriage in which he and Pinney were riding and later the mansion house where they had taken refuge. Incensed the crowd broke in and ransacked the ground floor. Pinney followed Wetherell's example and escaped over the roof while the rioters looted the house. There followed widespread destruction of public buildings as the crowd attacked the Bridewell the New Gaol and the Gloucester county prison liberating the prisoners before firing the buildings. On 25 October 1832 Pinney was put on trial in the court of king's bench charged with neglect of duty in his office as mayor during the riots. After a trial lasting seven days the jury returned a verdict of not guilty asserting that Pinney had 'acted according to the best of his judgement with zeal and personal courage'. Bristol: printed by Gutch and Martin, and published by Cadel [sic]; Blackwood, Edinburgh. 1833 hardcover
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TRIAL: STONE ALTAR CASE
Stone altar case. The judgment of the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust Kt. Dean of the Arches &c. &c. &c. in the case of Faulkner v. Litchfield and Stearn on the 31st January 1845. Edited from the judge's notes by J.E.P. Robertson D.C.L. advocate.
London: William Benning & Co. 1845. 8vo. 4 62pp. recent marbled boards lettered on spine. A very good copy. First edition. An interesting legal case heard on appeal in the Court of Arches i.e. the provincial court of the Archbishop of Canterbury before Sir Herbert Jenner Fust 1778-1852 who had been appointed official principal of the arches and judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury in 1836. He remained Dean of the Arches until his death. The so-called 'stone altar case' was an appeal by the Rector of the parish church of the Holy Sepulchre in Cambridge against a decree of the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely granting a faculty awarded to the churchwardens to have 'a stone communion table' i.e. altar and a stone 'credence table' placed in the church. The Minister a Mr. Faulkener took the widely held view that a stone altar was no less than Papist: the Churchwardens for their part not only cited examples of stone altars in other Anglican churches but also acquired the support of the Cambridge Camden Society that had assisted in the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre church. Jenner-Fust's final judgment found in favour of the Rector. Jenner-Fust's opinions and cases had considerable influence in the Church of England at a period of far-reaching change. They include Breeks v. Woolfrey> 1839 on praying for the dead; Mastin v. Escott> 1841 on unauthorized baptism; Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter> 1849; and Cursham v. Williams and Chouler> 1851. Although in the Church of England the legality of stone altars continued to be challenged in the 19th century they have latterly become relatively common. London: William Benning & Co., 1845 hardcover
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TRIAL: Thomas O. SELFRIDGE
Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge Attorney at Law before the Hon. Isaac Parker Esquire for killing Charles Austin on the public Exchange in Boston August 4th 1806. Taken in short hand by T. Lloyd Esq. reporter of the debates of Congress and Geo. Gaines Esq. late reporter to the State of New-York. And sanctioned by the court and reporter to the State.
Boston Russell and Cutler Belcher and Armstrong and Oliver and Munroe 1807. 8vo. 168 8pp. including the errata leaf table of contents and street plan some paper browning and dustsoiling recently well bound in old style quarter calf gilt. A good copy. First edition. Sabin 79011. McDade 860. Marke 1003. 'A trial of extraordinary interest from the high standing of the parties and the eminent legal talent engaged. James Sullivan was Attorney General and Samuel Dexter and Christopher Gore defended Selfridge'. Sabin. The killing of Austin by Selfridge arose out of a political dispute between Selfridge and the victim's father. The grand jury refused to indict him for murder; the charge brought being manslaughter. The case was for a long time an authority on the law of self-defence. Paul Revere was a member of the jury which acquitted the defendant. Boston, Russell and Cutler, Belcher and Armstrong, and Oliver and Munroe, [1807] unknown
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TRIAL LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The London Missionary Society's report of the proceedings against the late Rev. J. Smith of Demerara minister of the gospel who was tried under martial law and condemned to death on a charge of aiding and assisting in a rebellion of the negro slaves; from a full and correct copy transmitted to England by Mr. Smith's counsel and including the documentary evidence omitted in the Parliamentary copy; with an appendix; containing the letters and statements of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Mrs. Elliot Mr. Arrindell &c.; and also the Society's petition to the House of Commons. The whole published under the authority of the directors of the said Society.
London: F. Westley 1824. 8vo. vii 1 204pp. original boards corner of upper covers worn neatly rebacked and labelled entirely uncut. A very good copy. First edition. John Smith 1790-1824 was born the son of a soldier near Kettering in Northamptonshire was educated at the local Sunday school and was later apprenticed to a biscuit-maker in London. 'Under the influence of the Rev. John Stevens he became earnest in matters of religion and zealous for study. He was accepted by the London Missionary Society and in December 1816 was ordained as successor to John Wray at Le Resouvenir near Demerara or Georgetown in British Guiana. He arrived at Demerara on 23 Feb. 1817 and in his first interview with the governor Major-general John Murray the latter threatened that if he taught any negro-slave to read he should be banished. Notwithstanding the undisguised hostility of the white population he laboured among the negroes with considerable success. In August 1823 his health broke down and he was recommended by his doctor to leave the colony. On 18 Aug. however a rising of the negroes took place and three days later Smith was arrested for refusing to take up arms against the negroes. He was tried by court-martial on the charge of having promoted discontent among them. On the worthless evidence of terrorised slaves he was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. His execution was postponed until the pleasure of the home government should be known. But he was confined in the meantime in an unhealthy dungeon and died there on 24 Feb. 1824. When the news of Smith's imprisonment reached England popular interest was aroused. The publication of the documents connected with the case by the London Missionary Society intensified the excitement and upwards of two hundred petitions on his behalf were presented to parliament in eleven days. On 1 June 1825 his trial was debated in the House of Commons. Lord Brougham brought forward a motion condemning the action of the Demerara government and asserted that �in Smith's trial there had been more violation of justice in form as well as in substance than in any other inquiry in modern times that could be called a judicial proceeding.� After an adjournment however the motion which was opposed by government was negatived by 193 to 146'. DNB London: F. Westley, 1824 hardcover
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TRIAL: TAUNTON ELECTION
Trial of the Taunton election petition before a committee of the House of Commons February 23rd. 1831.
Taunton: printed and published by W. Bragg. 1831. 8vo. 2 298 2pp. including the final errata leaf contemporary handwritten index of names on front endpapers one or two gatherings strained contemporary dark green half roan spine gilt and lettered a little wear to binding but a good copy. First and only edition. Scarce OCLC for example finding only 2 copies both at the Un. of Minnesota while COPAC locates only a BL copy. An interesting pre-Reform Bill attempt by the losing Parliamentary candidate Lt. Gen. William Peachy to unseat one of the two successful candidates Edward Thomas Bainbridge on charges of bribery and corruption of voters by offering them cash and other favours in return for votes. The evidence and cross-examination of each of the 74 witnesses is transcribed here in full showing in both colourful and rather sordid detail the influence being brought to bear on voters. The charge of bribery and corruption was not proved however and the election result was allowed to stand. The Taunton printer W. Bragg issued this report on the proceedings in 25 numbers. Taunton: printed and published by W. Bragg. 1831 unknown
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TRIAL: Mrs. Ann WOOD
The trial of Mrs Ann Wood wife of William Wood Esq. Commissary and Pay-Master of Artillery; for adultery with Quintin Dick Esq. merchant of King Street Cheapside London; during the absence of her said husband in North America and the West-Indies upon his Majesty's duty. Being the particulars of an adulterous intercourse for the space of several years. In which the amorous parties shewed as little attention to decency as to fidelity. The cause was tried a few days ago in the Consistorial Episcopal Court at Doctor's Commons.
London: printed for G. Lister no.46 Old Bailey. 1786. 8vo. engraved frontispiece 2 9 - 76 i.e. 92pp. pp.89-92 misnumbered 73-76 most leaves with largely marginal foxing with advertisements on verso of title-page but no additional advertisement leaf well bound in 19th/20th century half calf over marbled boards spine lettered in gilt minor wear to extremities bookplate on front pastedown of Los Angeles Board of Law library.> First edition. A deliciously sordid adultery case with graphic descriptions by a whole string of witnesses usually servants and domestic staff. It is a story of 'the foul crime of adultery' with stained sheets crumpled beds bribed servants and shameless sex. The graphic engraved frontispiece is divided into three compartments identified as: 'Bed-Chamber Scene' 'Sopha Scene' and 'Lord Mayors Day Scene'. Ann Wood's adulterous affairs seem to have been even more reprehensible in view of her husband's absence on government service in America. The pair had originally lived in America were married at the Presbyterian church in New York in 1763 had lived apparently in various places in New York and Pennsylvania where Ann had produced four children. She and her children were shipped back to England in March 1778 for their own safety. She bought a house in Curzon Street Mayfair and the 'notorious' affair with Quintin Dick soon began. London: printed for G. Lister, no.46, Old Bailey. [1786] hardcover
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TRIAL: REX VERSUS BOURNE
Dorset Lent Assizes 1822. Rex versus Bourne printer and publisher of the Weymouth Poole and Dorchester Gazette for a libel.
Weymouth: printed by J. Commins 77 St. Mary-Street for Thomas Bourne. 1822. 8vo. 2 ii 9-100pp. recently well bound in cloth spine gilt lettered. A very good copy. The full report of a libel trial the defendant a Mr. Thomas Bourne being charged with publishing defamatory material in his own local newspaper thus libelling a Rev. Dr. John Dupre D.D. by referring to him as the 'Spanish Monk'. Bourne was actually acquitted. There is an interesting reference to Thomas Bourne in a contemporary issue of The Republican> newspaper edited by Richard Carlile. It comes in the transcript of a letter from 'Q' to Richard Carlile in Dorchester Gaol and is dated 'Bridport Jan. 16 1825'. 'About 5 years ago a paper was first printed at Weymouth under the title of the Weymouth Poole and Dorchester Gazette Mr. Thomas Bourn the proprietor. It was then in the independent interest; but Mr. Bourn's finances not holding out he decided to make over the concern to his father-in-law Capt. Bennett. After a few months of civil war the whole of the materials were disposed of to Messrs. G. Clark jun. W.M. Penny and D.C. Higgs of Dorchester who immediately changed its principles. .'. And Richard Carlile added the comment that he hopes 'my Dorset friends will soon get over this nonsense about independent> and ministerial interest> and learn to compare by and to reason upon correct political principles.' Richard Carlile was incarcerated in Dorchester gaol from November 1819 to November 1825. Weymouth: printed by J. Commins, 77, St. Mary-Street, for Thomas Bourne. [1822] hardcover
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TRIAL: John HAY
A narrative of procedure before the Court of Session and circumstances connected therewith in the trial of John Hay who was prosecuted at the instance of the Lord Advocate of Scotland and without the verdict of a jury sentenced to four months imprisonment by the judges of the Court of Session .
Edinburgh: printed by D. Webster and Son . for John Hay. 1822. 8vo. viii 123 1 115 1pp. a very good copy untrimmed in the original blue-grey boards tan paper spine partly defective and old printed label. First edition. Having failed for years to recover property that had belonged to his wife when a minor because the Court of Session had appointed a factor who for eleven years refused to render an account Hay became embroiled in lengthy and acrimonious proceedings before Lord Succoth that resulted in the charge that he had written transmitted or published injurious accusations against him. This work dedicated to Robert Peel the Home Secretary sets out these circumstances and the extended trial that followed. Edinburgh: printed by D. Webster and Son .... for John Hay. 1822 hardcover
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TRIAL: Katharine NAIRN
The trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie for the crimes of incest and murder. Containing the whole procedure of the High Court of Justiciary upon the 5th 12th 13th 14th 15th and 16th days of August 1765.
Edinburgh printed: London reprinted for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt. 1765. 8vo. 6 134pp. wanting the half-title foremargin of title creased and rather dust-soiled endpapers browned bound in 19th century cloth-backed boards printed label on upper cover corners and extremities worn uncut. See Wellcome IV p.260. In January 1765 in the town of East Miln Scotland 19 year-old Katharine Nairn married 40 year-old Thomas Ogilvie. She soon fell in love with his younger brother Patrick. In June the same year Thomas Ogilvie died after a sudden terrible illness. Katharine and Patrick were arrested and convicted of murder by poisoning. Patrick Ogilvie was hanged but Katharine's execution was delayed when she was found to be pregnant. She took an opportunity to escape from prison and fled to Holland. Wellcome notes that this 'includes medical evidence'. Edinburgh printed: London reprinted, for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt. 1765 hardcover
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TRIAL: Edward William PRITCHARD
A complete report of the trial of Dr. E.W. Pritchard for the alleged poisoning of his wife and mother-in-law. reprinted by special permission from the 'Scotsman'>. Carefully revised by an eminent lawyer. With an accurate portrait.
Edinburgh: William Kay. 1865. 8vo. portrait frontispiece viii 134pp. rather later 19th century half calf over marbled boards spine simply lettered in gilt with the original printed yellow upper wrapper bound in slight wear to joints else a very good copy from the library of Alfred Harmsworth Lord Northcliffe> 1865-1922 the newspaper proprietor with his bookplate on front pastedown. First edition thus. Harvard Law Cat.> 1909 II: 1169. This is the celebrated trial of Dr. Edward Pritchard 1825-1865 a well known Glasgow surgeon and the author of several books and a number of medical papers. He was convicted of poisoning his wife and mother-in-law after a five-day trial at the high court in Edinburgh. He in fact confessed his guilt on the day of sentencing and was sentenced to death. He was hanged by William Calcraft in front of Glasgow gaol on 28 July 1865; 100000 attended what was to be the last public execution in Glasgow. Edinburgh: William Kay. 1865 hardcover
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TRIAL: Colonel QUENTIN
The trial of Colonel Quentin of the Tenth or Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Hussars by a general court-martial held at Whitehall on Monday the 17th of October 1814; and continued by adjournment till Monday the 31st of October 1814. Taken in short-hand by Mr. W.B. Gurney short-hand writer to both Houses of Parliament.
London: Gale Curtis and Fenner and Egerton. 1814. 8vo. vii 1 272pp. wanting a half-title with a large folding chart bound in after p.218 Register of Regimental Courts-Martial commencing 14th December 1812> in slightly later black half calf gilt over marbled boards marbled edges. A fine copy. First edition. A celebrated and publicly controversial court-martial Colonel Quentin or Quintin being charged with 4 counts of behaviour 'unbecoming and disgraceful to his character as an officer prejudicial to good order and military discipline and contrary to the articles of war'. The charges related variously to events in the field in France in the valley of Macoy in Jan. 1814 near the village of Hagelman in the Landes in Feb. 1814 and during the battle of Toulouse in April 1814. The fourth charge was a catchall charge of 'general neglect of duty by allowing a relaxed discipline to exist in the regiment under his command when on foreign service'. Though a number of the charges were found against Quentin the army authorities decided that the insubordination of his officers was of greater threat to military discipline and had the officers transferred to other regiments a move that earned them the sobriquet of the 'elegant extracts'. London: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, and Egerton. 1814 hardcover
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TRIAL: ROWE v. BRENTON
A report of the trial at bar Rowe v. Brenton tried in the Court of King's Bench Westminster Michaelmas Term 9 Geo.IV. as to the right to minerals in the assessional lands of the Duchy of Cornwall with explanatory notes; and an appendix containing the records and documents as given in evidence. By George Concanen.
London: W. Walker. 1830. 8vo. folding coloured lithographic map of 'Lands showing the situation of Nan Smellyn alias Lamellyn' xliii 2 334 1 236 8pp. some general paper browning and scattered foxing title-page foxed several near-contemporary ink amendments and emphasis marks contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine a presentation copy inscribed by the compiler 'Mr Wells with Mr. Concanen's compts' >with the 19th century armorial bookplate of John Davies Enys> a further presentation inscription dated Feb. 1849. Hardy Wells to William Eagle and the small inkstamp on the fly-leaf of Cornwall Record Office. First edition: scarce. A landmark trial in the long and contentious history of the legal and constitutional status of the Duchy of Cornwall mineral rights of private landowners the power of the Stannary courts and by extension the whole matter of Cornwall's peculiar semi-separate status within the United Kingdom. The Rowe-Brenton case itself was brought to 'try the right to copper ore raised from the East Crinnis mines' at Tewington in Cornwall. This copy is further enhanced by the addition at the end of the volume of A short statement of the case of the late Sir William Clayton Bart. and his lessees holding an estate at Kennington under the constitution of the Duchy of Cornwall> 8pp. London 1834. A very rare pamphlet of which we can locate a copy at BL but no other not in OCLC. London: W. Walker. 1830 hardcover
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TRIAL: BURNELL v. NICHOLSON
Report of the late important trial in the Court of King's Bench in which Sir Charles Merrik Burnell Bart. was plaintiff and Henry John Nicholson the defendant; respecting the parochial rates claimed by the parish of St. Margaret Westminster from the inhabitants of Richmond Terrace. Tried before the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Denman Knt. C.J. and a special jury at Westminster Hall on Monday the 9th of December 1833.
London: J.B. Nichols & Son. 1834. 8vo. 2 191 1pp. original maroon cloth very faded spine worn and rather shaken internally good. First edition: very scarce. Goldsmiths-Kress 28702.1. This was an action in which the plaintiff claimed that Richmond Terrace was not within the parish of St. Margaret hence that the residents could not be compelled to contribute to the relief of the poor of that parish. The verdict was eventually given for the defendant. Richmond Terrace now in London SW1 was originally a modest brick terrace of 1822-5 built by George Harrison on the site of Richmond House. Its early occupants included William Huskisson and Edward Ellice brother-in-law of Lord Grey whose house no.3. became the headquarters of the Whigs and supporters of the Reform Bill. London: J.B. Nichols & Son. 1834 hardcover
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TRIAL: George ROSE
The trial of George Rose Esq. Secretary to the Treasury &c. for employing Mr. Smith a publican in Westminster upon a late Westminster election and not paying him; on which he was on Thursday the 21st of July 1791 cast in the Court of King's Bench by a special jury in the sum of one hundred and ten pounds five shillings. Taken in short hand by a barrister. This is the most curious trial ever yet published for displaying the arts of our heaven-born minister to obtain his candidates seats in Parliament.
London: J. Ridgway. 1791. 8vo. 64pp. including the half-title contemporary half calf over marbled boards neatly rebacked to match spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy. First edition. This was a trial that exposed to public scrutiny the worst excesses of a corrupt electoral system and probably hastened the unstoppable clamour for electoral reform. George Rose 1744-1818 politician and publicist was one of Pitt's political fixers. 'The emergence of William Pitt as premier in December 1783 transformed Rose who had pledged his allegiance to Pitt following their meeting in Paris in autumn 1783 into senior patronage secretary to the Treasury. In 1784 he acquired the mastership of the exchequer pleas for life which in 1797 he exchanged for the office of keeper of records in the receipt of the exchequer. His management of elections and public relations as well as his responsibility for financial questions required his constant attendance in parliament where he sat for Launceston on the duke of Northumberland's interest from 1784. He was elected for Lymington on 1 July 1788 after failing to secure the support of the new duke for his re-election to Launceston on succeeding to the Lords clerkships. He was by now enjoying an annual income of over �4000 and so ceded the emoluments of the Journals> office but ensured that his wife received a pension of �300 per annum in lieu. At this time Rose won the confidence of George III who visited his house Cuffnells near Lyndhurst in Hampshire in June 1789 when travelling from Weymouth. From 1788 to 1790 he was preoccupied with electoral surveys for Pitt to ensure a more secure majority at the next general election. He also secured his own parliamentary success on purchasing the interest at Christchurch where he had a cottage in addition to his Cuffnells estate. He retained this manageable seat from 1790 until his death. It was the kind of constituency that Pitt himself would have abolished in his parliamentary reform proposals of 1785 the first of Pitt's measures that Rose candidly opposed. He had cultivated his interest in Hampshire by obtaining the office of verderer of the New Forest in March 1788 and became deputy warden in 1808 but his bumptiousness did make him some enemies. In 1791 he was successfully sued in the king's bench for unpaid debts to George Smith a publican who had helped detect improper votes in the 1788 Westminster by-election. For this he was castigated notably in an unsuccessful motion for a parliamentary inquiry on 13 March 1792 and in the pamphlet Trial of G. Rose> which added impetus to the radical campaign for parliamentary reform.' Roland Thorne in ODNB The report of George Rose's trial in the present volume is followed pp. 54-64 by a hard-hitting anti-Rose essay entitled Reflections addressed to George Rose Esq.> and signed 'Alfred' in which the pseudonymous author should be 'permitted to retire to Cuffnels; and escape by seclusion the scornful pointed finger of your indignant country'. Cuffnells was Rose's country house near Lyndhurst in Hampshire. London: J. Ridgway. 1791 hardcover
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TRIAL: John LAMBERT
Trial of the information ex officio the King versus John Lambert and another on a charge of libel on His Majesty's person inserted in the Morning Chronicle>.
London: edited by James Perry and printed by John Lambert for James Ridgway. 1810. 8vo. xxxi 1 52pp. upper margin of one leaf damaged but not touching printed text title-page just a little soiled and creased recently well bound in linen-backed marbled boards lettered. A good copy. First edition. The long Preface> 31pp. written by James Perry 1756-1821 one of the most notable journalists of the age the editor of the Morning Chronicle> and John Lambert's co-defendant is a significant essay on the liberty of the press and refers back to the circumstances of the first prosecution of Perry and Lambert for seditious libel in 1793. Perry confirms his view that 'a vigilant and direct censure of mal-administration was within the lawful province of the English press and essential to the preservation of our rights and liberties as a people'. And he writes powerfully also about the press and responsible journalism its claim to professional status not simply a 'trade'. Perry was largely motivated the Preface is dated 27th March 1810 by an 'obnoxious' resolution before Parliament which would have prevented the admission of reporters to the gallery of the House of Commons a resolution that in the event was withdrawn after an animated and at times acrimonious debate. The 1810 trial of Perry and Lambert was over a paragraph copied from Hunt's Examiner> against the Prince Regent and then repeated in the Morning Chronicle>. In fact the words alleged to have amounted to a libel were by to-day's standards pretty innocuous: 'What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that might be bestowed upon the country in the event of a total change of system'. The case which turned on the final clause was in the end deemed to have been a fair comment on the King's ministers not on the King himself. Perry and Lambert were thus acquitted. London: edited by James Perry, and printed by John Lambert, for James Ridgway. 1810 hardcover
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TRIAL: ANDERSON v. RINTOUL
Report of the trial by jury Anderson against Rintoul and others for libels spoken at public meetings in Dundee and published in the Dundee Perth and Cupar Advertiser newspaper. By William Bennet Writer to the Signet.
Edinburgh: John Lothian 1824. 8vo. iv 151 1 38 2pp. including the final Postscript early ownership signatures in upper margin of title rebound recently in quarter calf and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy. First edition: rare. NSTC & COPAC together locate only 3 copies at BL NLS Harvard. But OCLC adds 4 other American libraries. McCoy Freedom of the Press> B199. A complex libel trial in which Patrick Anderson of Laws a Dundee merchant took an action for damages for various libels both published in the local Dundee newspaper and also expressed at Public meetings in the locality. The libels centred round a legacy of �6000 bequeathed by Mr James Webster of Clapham Common in London to trustees the interest in the capital to be used in perpetuity for the education of poor children born in Dundee or the counties of Fife Perth or Forfar. Rintoul's newspaper alleged financial malpractice - or at least culpable mismanagement - by Anderson as trustee effectively losing the whole of the �6000 investment and therefore preventing the 'very existence of the Dundee Academy'. Robert Stephen Rintoul 1787-1858 was a path-breaking journalist of his time the Dundee Advertiser> becoming one of the chief liberal journals in Scotland. Removing to London in 1826 he founded the Spectator> which took a prominent part in the discussion of all questions of social and political reform. Rintoul eventually sold the Spectator> shortly before his death in 1858. The Anderson/Rintoul libel case in 1824 was concluded with a verdict for Rintoul. Edinburgh: John Lothian, 1824 hardcover
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TRIAL: Henry HUNT
The trial of Henry Hunt Esq. Jno. Knight Jos. Johnson Jno Thacker Saxton Samuel Bamford Jos. Healey James Moorhouse Robert Jones Geo. Swift and Robert Wylde for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the government &c. by threats and force of arms. Before Mr. Justice Bayley and a special jury at the York Lent Assizes 1820.
London: published by T. Dolby. 1820. 8vo. 4 viii 3 - 309 1pp. contemporary or slightly later maroon half roan spine simply gilt and lettered a little wear to extremities short splits in upper joint but nonetheless a good sound copy. Kress C.556. One of several versions of the trial published more or less simultaneously in Manchester Leeds London and perhaps elsewhere. This Dolby printing sympathetic to the defendants is said to be 'excessively rare rigidly suppressed' although this is surely an exaggeration. Henry Hunt 1773-1835 'Orator Hunt' the radical politician and friend of William Cobbett was arrested as the ringleader of the St. Peter's Fields reform meeting in Manchester tried at York in March 1820 and committed to two years' imprisonment. He had unsuccessfully conducted his own defense. The trial is here reported more or less verbatim it lasted from 16th to 27th March and includes the statements of the defendants and the cross-examination of some 84 witnesses. The editor probably Dolby suggests that 'this important trial will be read and listened to with the liveliest interest wherever there is a spark of humanity or justice to be found' Preface. London: published by T. Dolby. 1820 unknown
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TRIAL: Lieut. Gen. John WHITELOCK
The proceedings of a General Court Martial held at Chelsea Hospital on Thursday January 28 1808 and continued by adjournment till Tuesday March 15 for the trial of Lieut. Gen. Whitelocke late Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South America. Taken in Short-hand by Mr. Gurney. With the defence copied from the original by permission of General Whitelocke; also all the documents produced on the trial. Vol.I. - Vol.II.
London: printed for J.C. Mottley Portsmouth; published by Longman &c. 1808. Two vols. 8vo. two folding engraved maps 8 438 xxxix 1 and 8 439-830pp. contemporary half calf over marbled boards skilfully rebacked and labelled. A very good copy. First edition. General Whitelocke's court-martial was the inevitable consequence of his enormous and disastrous ill-judged and ill-directed campaign against Spanish forces in Buenos Aires and the Plate region of South America in May - July 1807. 'Whitelocke returned to England on 7 November 1807 and in January 1808 he was court-martialled at Chelsea. . The court martial took seven weeks and Whitelocke faced four charges covering poor diplomacy military incompetence and negotiation of a shameful surrender each barely relevant to what had happened. He was found guilty and was cashiered. His fault lay in taking on a task beyond his capacity for which those who appointed him should have shared the blame'. John D. Grainger in ODNB. London: printed for J.C. Mottley, Portsmouth; published by Longman (&c.). 1808 hardcover
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TRIAL: Lieut. Gen. John WHITELOCKE
Authentic and complete trial of Lieut. Gen. Whitelocke late commander of the attack on Buenos Ayres; by a court-martial assembled in the Great Hall Chelsea College from Thursday January 28 to Tuesday March 15 1808; including a complete copy of his defence. Taken in short-hand by a barrister of the Inner Temple. To which is added a sketch of the life and campaigns of General Whitelocke accompanied with a correct likeness; also an authentic narrative of the expedition from its departure from England March 7 1807.
London: Jones and Bumford; T. and R. Hughes; Mills and Son; Blacklock; Dale; Cole and Allen; and Meggy and Chalk Chelmsford. n.d. 1808. 8vo. engraved portrait frontispiece 3 6 - 92pp. possibly wanting a half-title contemporary half russia over marbled boards spine simply gilt and lettered upper joint cracked. A very good copy with the early 19th century armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Harvey> 1775-1841 a successful naval officer who later was appointed commander-in-chief in the West Indies. This is one and perhaps the most condensed of several accounts of this celebrated court-martial. General Whitelocke's court-martial was the inevitable consequence of his enormous and disastrous ill-judged and ill-directed campaign against Spanish forces in Buenos Aires and the Plate region of South America in May - July 1807. 'Whitelocke returned to England on 7 November 1807 and in January 1808 he was court-martialled at Chelsea. . The court martial took seven weeks and Whitelocke faced four charges covering poor diplomacy military incompetence and negotiation of a shameful surrender each barely relevant to what had happened. He was found guilty and was cashiered. His fault lay in taking on a task beyond his capacity for which those who appointed him should have shared the blame'. John D. Grainger in ODNB. London: Jones and Bumford; T. and R. Hughes; Mills and Son; Blacklock; Dale; Cole and Allen; and Meggy and Chalk, Chelmsford. n. hardcover
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TRIAL: Duncan STEVENSON
Report of the trial of the issues in the action of damages for libel in the Beacon James Gibson of Ingliston Esq. Clerk to the Signet - Pursuer against Duncan Stevenson printer in Edinburgh - Defender.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1822. 8vo. 8 139 1 2 2pp. including the half-title and final advertisement leaf recently well bound in cloth spine gilt lettered. A very good copy. First edition. This action relates to allegations printed in the Beacon> newspaper subsequent to prosecution of Frances Mackay for passing forges banknotes and is a notable Scottish libel trial. Duncan Stevenson & Co. was a highly successful Edinburgh printing company Stevenson himself being a dyed-in-the-wool Tory entirely opposed to political and social reform. The early 1820s was a time of considerable political confrontation with Stevenson's company being used to print highly contentious material. From its very first issue printed by Duncan Stevenson & Co. the Beacon> contained a vituperative attack in its leading article on the Whigs and their paper the Scotsman.> In 1821 occurred a nasty confrontation with James Stuart of Dunearn and in the following year 1822 a libel action brought against the Beacon> by Lord Archibald Hamilton M.P. 'Much more serious was the Beacon's> libel of John Gibson of Ingleston a Writer to the Signet and agent of the Bank of England in Edinburgh who was described as 'a great agent of Whiggism.' The newspaper accused Gibson of impropriety in bringing a prosecution in 1819 for counterfeiting then a capital offence against Frances Mackay whom he had paid to turn King's evidence. With the backing of the Bank Gibson went to court. The trial which followed that of Lord Archibald was aglitter with many senior figures in Scottish public life appearing at witnesses. As the Beacon> had also cast doubt on the independence of the Scottish judiciary the judge and counsel at the trial of Frances Mackay along with Frances herself and her father appeared as witnesses. The trumped up nature of the attack became obvious when it emerged that Frances who believed she was on trial for her life had been relieved to be spared the alternative punishment of transportation by a Royal Pardon. The evidence made it clear that her trial had been conducted fairly and properly. During the trial questioning of William Mitchell a friend of Stevenson revealed that when Mitchell had urged him to apologise to Gibson Stevenson had admitted 'Ruined I am backed by those who could stand for a million of damages'. It then emerged that none other than the Lord Advocate Sir William Rae and other leading Tories had signed a bond as sureties for �100 each for any debt that Stevenson might incur with the Bank of Scotland. In the circumstances the jury took little time in awarding Gibson �500 damages. The hot-blooded James Stuart was not satisfied and demanded satisfaction of the Lord Advocate who with no taste for duelling disavowed his association with the paper. Gibson then challenged Walter Scott who had been a reluctant signatory of the bond to a duel. The Earl of Lauderdale agreed to be his second but before the bullets flew good sense intervened. It was agreed that the Beacon> should cease publication immediately and the threats of duels were withdrawn. These events seem to have done Stevenson no harm for in 1823 he became Printer to the University.' Michael Moss The curious case of Duncan Stevenson: printer to Edinburgh University.> Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1822 hardcover
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TRIAL: Edward Gibbon WAKEFIELD
The trial of Edward Gibbon Wakefield William Wakefield and Frances Wakefield indicted with one Edward Thevenot a servant for a conspiracy and for the abduction of Miss Ellen Turner the only child and heiress of William Turner Esq. of Shrigley Park in the county of Chester.
London: John Murray 1827. 8vo. xv 1 350pp. complete with the half-title and Appendix pp.305-350 half-title rather soiled rebound relatively recently in cloth with a leather gilt lettered spine label. A solid workmanlike but not very appealing binding. A good copy nonetheless. First edition: complete with the rare Appendix. The original account of one of the most celebrated English criminal trials of the 19th century which resulted in the young Edward Gibbon Wakefield 1796-1862 later to be the acclaimed colonial statesman being sent to prison for three years. In 1816 he had made a runaway match with an heiress and ward in chancery Eliza Susan Pattle the orphan daughter of a Canton merchant. He afterwards returned to Turin as secretary to the under-secretary of the legation and after his wife's death on 5 July 1820 he became connected with the Paris legation. In 1826 urged on by the persuasions of his friends in Paris he made a foolhardy attempt to improve his prospects by a second marriage. On 7 March by a false message he beguiled from school Ellen Turner the daughter of William Turner of Shrigley a wealthy Cheshire manufacturer inducing her by representing that her father's fortune depended on her compliance to go through a ceremony of marriage at Gretna Green. He took the lady with him to Calais but forbore to consummate the marriage; at Calais he was overtaken by his bride's enraged relatives who induced her to leave him. Wakefield returned to England to share the fate of his accomplice his brother William who had already been arrested. They were both sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The question of the legality of the marriage was involved in so much doubt that it was cancelled by special Act of Parliament. Some two years after his release he published the result of his prison experience and reflections Facts relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis> London 1831 8vo a book remarkable alike for its insight and for its extraordinary power of portrayal. To his clear demonstration that punishment is deterrent according to its certainty not according to its severity the amelioration of English criminal law was largely due. London: John Murray, 1827 hardcover
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