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1776ref. 712211776. London: S.n. 1776. London: S.n. 1776. An Account of a Notorious Case of Election Bribery Bound with a Related Unrecorded Broadside Trial. Sykes Francis 1730-1804 Defendant. Mortimer Hans Wintrop Plaintiff. The Trial of the Cause on the Action Brought by Hans Wintrop Mortimer Esq; Member for the Borough of Shaftesbury Against Francis Sykes Esq; For Bribery Committed at Shaftesbury Previous to the General Election In October 1774. Tried by a Special Jury On Saturday the 27th of July 1776. At the Assize Held at Dorchester for the County of Dorset Before The Honourable Sir James Eyre One of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer. London: S.n. 1776. 19 1 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto 9-3/4" x 7-1/2"; 24.8 x 19 cm. Bound with Text Two later tipped-in leaves of notes. Affixed to one of these leaves are a contemporary account of the trial and a section of a letter in Mortimer's hand. And Tipped-in contemporary 14" x 21" 35.5 x 53.3 cm mezzotint by an unknown artist The Shaftsbury Election or the Humours of Punch 1775. Additional annotations about the mezzotint to front endleaves one followed by two ownership inscriptions one of Henry White. Affixed to one of these is a small clipping about the Mortimer family. And Broadside. Mortimer Hans Winthrop. To the Worthy Electors of the Borough of Shaftsbury. Shafton: s.l. 11 June 1790. Trimmed to 9" x 6" 22.8 x 15.2 cm and affixed to verso of title page. Nineteenth-century calf rebacked in period style gilt rules to boards gilt fillets and retained nineteenth-century lettering piece to spine hinges mended marbled endleaves. Moderate rubbing to boards and toning to text occasional early underlining and brief notes in pencil. $3500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION. The Shaftesbury Election of 1774 stands as one of the most infamous instances of parliamentary corruption in 18th-century England. Ministerial candidates Sir Francis Sykes and Sir Thomas Rumbold bribed electors with thousands of pounds routing money through a masked figure known as "Punch" to avoid direct liability. Voters were given cash in exchange for signing promissory notes payable to an imaginary figure named "Glenbucket". The defeated candidate Hans Winthrop Mortimer. unknown books
1765ref. 865801765. London: Printed for J. Almon 1765. London: Printed for J. Almon 1765. A Landmark in the History of Freedom of the Press: The First Edition to Unite Two Landmark Anglo-American Press Trials Zenger and Owen 1765 Trial. Zenger John Peter Defendant. Owen William Defendant. The Trial of John Peter Zenger Of New-York Printer: Who Was Charged with Having Printed and Published a Libel Against the Government; And Acquitted. With a Narrative of His Case. To Which is Now Added Being Never Printed Before The Trial of Mr. William Owen Bookseller Near Temple Bar Who Was Also Charged with the Publication of a Libel Against the Government; Of Which He was Honourably Acquitted by a Jury of Free-Born Englishmen Citizens of London. London: Printed for J. Almon Opposite Burlington-House Piccadilly 1765. 59 1 pp. final page publisher's advertisement. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2"; 22.9 x 14 cm. Contemporary stab-stitched plain paper wrappers title in an elegant contemporary manuscript hand to front wrapper edges untrimmed. Light toning minor dust-soiling to wrappers otherwise a crisp very good copy. Early ownership signature "J. Pickard" to upper margin of title page. An appealing unsophisticated copy preserved in a custom dark green morocco and cloth clamshell box. $5000. First Almon edition and the first edition to combine the celebrated 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger a landmark in the development of freedom of the press in America with the 1752 London libel trial of bookseller William Owen. Prosecuted for printing criticism of New York's royal governor William Cosby Zenger was defended by Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia who argued that truth should constitute a defense against libel. Although the court rejected this argument the jury acquitted Zenger an influential assertion of the jury's independence in political prosecutions. First published in 1736 the account generally attributed to James Alexander became an enduring statement of resistance to arbitrary government and an important antecedent of the First Amendment. Owen was prosecuted for publishing The Case of Alexander Murray; his acquittal similarly demonstrated the power of juries in prosecutions for political libel. Issued by the prominent London opposition bookseller John Almon during the mounting imperial controversy of 1765 this edition brings together two notable Anglo-American trials illustrating the. unknown books
