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1804ref. 684321804. London: Printed for John Ginger 1804. London: Printed for John Ginger 1804. A Famous English Case Involving Abduction and Assault Trial. Gordon Loudoun Harcourt Defendant. An Apology for the Conduct of the Gordons; Containing the Whole of Their Correspondence Conversation &c. With Mrs. Lee: To Which is Annexed An Accurate Account of Their Examination at Bow Street And Their Trial at Oxford. London: Printed for John Ginger 1804. xxxiv 35-143 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet title page mounted and re-hinged. Light soiling to exterior light toning to text "3" in early hand to head of title page. $150. Later edition. This colorful trial for abduction and assault was the result of a misguided love affair. The plaintiff Mrs Lee claimed that she had been abducted by Lonsdale Gordon and his brother the author of this pamphlet. Both were ultimately acquitted. British Museum Catalogue Compact Edition 10:951. unknown books
1808ref. 734641808. Adultery Trial Involving a Wealthy Heiress A Member of Parliament and the Diplomat who Acquired the Elgin Marbles Trial. Ferguson William Robert 1769-1840 Defendant. An Authentic Account of the Proceedings Under a Writ of Enquiry of Damages In an Action in the Court of King's Bench In Which the Right Hon. The Earl of Elgin was Plaintiff And William Ferguson Esq. Defendant For Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife: Executed Before the Sheriff of Middlesex And a Special Jury On the 22d of December 1807: Verdict .10000. London: Printed for J. Hatchard 1808. Only edition. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5"; 21.6 x 12.7cm. ii 113 1 pp. Stab-stitched pamphlet edges untrimmed bound in later red pebbled cloth gilt title to spine. Some bubbling to boards. Small bookseller's ticket and bookplate of Geoffrey Briggs to front pastedown. Front hinge cracked after title page but secure. Moderate toning to interior negligible light foxing to a few leaves light soiling to first and final pages. A very good copy. $450. Only edition of a highly public high-society "Criminal Conversation." Mary Hamilton Bruce 1778-1855 Countess of Elgin was the wife of British diplomat Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin 1766-1841 best known for his acquisition of the sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens the Elgin Marbles. Ferguson also spelled "Fergusson" was a Whig Member of Parliament and an amateur geologist. When the earl discovered his wife's affair with Ferguson he sued him and won 10000 almost 1000000. today. A divorce followed and Ferguson married her on 20 April 1808. Our copy was owned by Sir Geoffrey Briggs 1914-1993 an English lawyer and judge who served as Chief Justice of Hong Kong and Brunei. Accounts of this trial are scarce including ours. OCLC locates 7 copies of this title 3 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota Library of Congress. unknown books
1815ref. 650051815. London 1815. OCLC locates no copies this imprint. London 1815. OCLC locates no copies this imprint. Fraud In The Yorkshire Coal Fields Trial. Stocks Michael Defendant. An Authentic Report Of The Trial Of Michael Stocks Esq. For Wilful And Corrupt Perjury At The Yorkshire Lent Assizes 1815. Before The Honourable Sir Alexander Thompson Knt. Chief Baron Of His Majesty's Exchequer And A Special Jury. Huddersfield: Sold by the Principal Booksellers in London; And the Booksellers of York Leeds Bradford Huddersfield Halifax Sheffield Wakefield Rochdale Manchester &c. 1815. 116 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into nineteenth-century unlettered pebbled cloth. Light rubbing to extremities with light wear to spine ends corners bumped minor spotting to boards. Light toning to text finger smudges and light foxing to a few leaves. A very good copy. $500. First edition second issue with the errata all corrected. Stocks was accused of stealing and selling 10000 tons of coal from mines in Northowram in the West-Riding of Yorkshire he owned in partnership with two other men. Stocks was not convicted. The trial details the contractual history of the partnership such contentious matters as the exact legal boundaries of neighboring mines and coal-pits and the nature of written and verbal agreements. OCLC locates no copies of this imprint. 1 copy located at the Library of Congress. unknown books
1679ref. 731571679. A Drunken Night Gone Wrong Trial. Cornwallis Charles 3rd Baron 1655-1698 Defendant. An Impartial Account of the Trial of the Lord Conwallis sic. London: s.n. 1679. ii 12 pp. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent printed wrappers. Light edgewear and chipping to fore-edge and spine. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing and soiling small tear to bottom-edge of final leaf not affecting text. $250. Only edition. While drunk and disorderly Cornwallis and a friend harassed and threatened a sentry. After failing to ruffle the sentry despite threats ranging from the physical to the sexual their attention turned to some boys passing by. The friend attacked one of them and broke the boy's neck. Cornwallis was tried as an accomplice and acquitted although several jury members voted to convict him of manslaughter. OCLC locates 2 copies of this title in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress. English Short-Title Catalogue R7670. unknown books
1917ref. 797951917. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn. 1917. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn. 1917. The Trial of America's Most Famous Anarchists Trial. Goldman Emma 1869-1940 Defendant. Berkman Alexander 1870-1936 Defendant. Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York July 1917. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association 1917. 87 9 pp. With 2 portraits of Berkman and Goldman and 9 pp. of publisher advertisements. Pamphlet in printed wrappers bound in recent quarter cloth over plain paper boards typed label to front board endpapers added 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" publisher's advertisement for this title laid in. Light shelfwear cloth starting to separate from rear board at head library bookplate to inner front board. Light toning to interior faint offsetting to front wrapper small clean tear to upper corner of title page which has punch and ink library stamps not affecting text small chips and tears to fore-edge of laid-in sheet. $450. Only edition. Published by Goldman's anarchist magazine Mother Earth this pamphlet documents the trial of anarchist activists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman who were outspoken opponents of U.S. entry into World War I and called for men to refuse conscription. Both were found guilty of violating the Espionage Act which punished obstruction of the draft or encouragement of disloyalty to the United States. They were sentenced to two years in prison and a $10000 fine. Both were deported to Russia upon their release under the terms of the 1918 Anarchist Exclusion Act. Titled "The Present Situation in re Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman" the laid-in sheet encourages all "sufficiently interested in free speech and fair play" to circulate Anarchism on Trial and donate funds towards an appeal. unknown books
1818ref. 820231818. The End of Trial by Battle in the United Kingdom Broadside. Trial. Thornton Abraham c.1793-1860 Respondent. Appeal of Murder: The Decision of the Judges in the Case of Ashford ver. Thornton Court of King's Bench April 20th 1818. Nottingham: Shorrock and Son Successors to E. Hodson Printers 1818. 12-1/2" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted to later backing sheet text in two columns separated by rule below headline and woodcut vignette of a landscape. Moderate toning light soiling to edges a few faint creases printer's flaw and clean tear to right column no loss to legibility. Rare. $3000. Ashford v. Thornton dealt with the aftermath of the murder of Mary Ashford in 1817. Abraham Thornton who had seen and been intimate with Ashford the previous night was tried for rape and murder but acquitted of both charges due to a lack of evidence and inconsistencies in the prosecutor's case. Public outcry around his acquittal led to Mary's brother William invoking an "appeal of murder." This uncommon legal practice allowed a retrial of a defendant acquitted for murder but crucially gave the defendant the right to trial by battle. Thornton invoked that right. After extensive proceedings in the Court of King's Bench the court found that he was eligible to do so. Our broadside documents the final hearing in which Ashford declined to battle with Thornton and withdrew his appeal. Thornton was given a pro forma arraignment and released. The case resulted in the abolition of appeals by murder and thus the end of trial by battle. This broadside is rare and appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. Not at Harvard or the British Library. unknown books
1853ref. 677241853. Madison: Published by Beriah Brown 1853. Madison: Published by Beriah Brown 1853. 1853 Impeachment Trial of a Wisconsin Judge Trial. Ryan Edward G. 1810-1880. Hubbell Levi 1808-1876 Defendant. Argument of Edward G. Ryan On the Trial of Levi Hubbell Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit Before the Senate of Wisconsin On an Impeachment Preferred by the Assembly for High Misdemeanors in Office. Madison WI: Published by Beriah Brown 1853. 154 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling to exterior light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves. $350. Only edition. Judge Hubbell was charged with corruption while in office. His impeachment trial in the Wisconsin Senate resulted in an acquittal. Ryan was the prosecutor in the case. OCLC locates 11 copies 2 in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 14491. unknown books
1805ref. 234821805. Trial. Argument of the Hon. William Smith in Giving Judgment on the Case of the Hon. Mr. Justice Johnson. In the Court of Exchequer on the 7th of Feb. 1805. Dublin: M.N. Mahon 1805. 104 pp. Disbound. Internally clean. $75. unknown books
1705ref. 711441705. London: no publisher 1705. Macclesfield copy. London: no publisher 1705. Macclesfield copy. Contemporary Report of a Fundamental Case in English Constitutional and Tort Law Regarding the Right to Vote Trial. Needham Culverwell b.1656 Reporter. Ashby Matthew Plaintiff. White William Defendant. Ashby and White: Or The Great Question Whether an Action Lies at Common Law for an Elector Who Is Deny'd His Vote for Members of Parliament Debated and Resolv'd. Together with the Case of Jay and Topham: And the Defence Made by Sir Francis Pemberton and Sir Thomas Jones for Their Judgment Given Therein: With Other Cases. London: S.n. 1705. ii 257 3 pp. Final page blank. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Contemporary sheep blind panels to boards raised bands to spine. Some scuffing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners joints just starting at ends hinges cracked armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield to front pastedown small embossed Macclesfield device to title page. Moderate toning faint dampspotting in a few places a few brief annotations to index initials in small early hand to foot of title page lower corner lacking from final index leaf below text. An appealing copy. $750. Only edition. Also known as the Aylesbury Election Case Ashby v. White is a fundamental case in English constitutional and tort law. Ashby was prevented from casting a vote in an Aylesbury election by White a constable who claimed Ashby was not an established resident of that town. The case was decided in Parliament in Ashby's favor and it established the following rule: the actions of one party may not hinder the rights of another. Our copy once belonged to the library of Shirburn Castle the library of the Earls of Macclesfield one of the finest private libraries in Great Britain. English Short-Title Catalogue T84969. unknown books
1843ref. 822711843. New York: Tribune Office 160 Nassau Street 1843. New York: Tribune Office 160 Nassau Street 1843. The Only Mutiny Plot That Occurred on a U.S. Navy Ship Trial. MacKenzie Alexander Slidell 1803-1848 Defendant. Case of the Somers' Mutiny. Defence of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie Commander of the U.S. Brig Somers Before the Court Martial Held at the Navy Yard Brooklyn. New York: Tribune Office 160 Nassau Street 1843. 30 11 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling a few minor stains to exterior spine ends abraded faint traces of erased penciled annotation to front wrapper. Light toning to interior light foxing to p. ii. A well-preserved copy. $450. First and only edition. This trial concerns the only time a mutiny plot was discovered on a U.S. Navy ship. "Alexander Slidell Mackenzie was a career naval officer and author of many books. In 1842 while he was commander of the brig Somers Mackenzie executed three members of his crew for allegedly plotting a mutiny. The three Philip Spencer Samuel Cromwell and Elisha Small were executed without a hearing. The incident aroused much public interest and criticism since Spencer was the son of the secretary of war John C. Spencer. Although a court of inquiry cleared Mackenzie the secretary of the navy charged him with murder. A court martial held at Mackenzie's request found him innocent" Cohen. Because it was the first and as time would show only attempted mutiny in the history of the U.S. Navy this case attracted a fair amount of subsequent attention most recently Philip McFarland's 1985 account Sea Dangers: The Affair of the Somers. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13563. unknown books
1828ref. 740281828. Ireland: s.n. 1828. Ireland: s.n. 1828. Blaming the Parish Priest Trial. Brady Thomas Defendant. Cavan Sessions Monday January 15 1828. Mary Reilly v. The Rev. Thomas Brady Of Cavan Caption Title. Ireland: s.n. 1828. 14 2 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5". Stab-stitched pamphlet recently resewn in plain wrappers. Small fold line to lower corner of front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing soiling and edgewear small tears to gutter and final leaf neatly mended with tissue without loss to text. Rare. $650. Only edition. Mary Reilly alias Kilkenny alias Kenny sued Brady for the maintenance of her two illegitimate children whom she claimed were his. Brady was defended by Richard Lalor Sheil a notable Irish lawyer orator and politician. Our account of the trial includes Sheil's impassioned and successful speeches for the defense. OCLC locates 2 copies University of Illinois National Library of Ireland. unknown books
1796ref. 821781796. A Vermont Estate Case Involving Two Former Mayors of New York City Manuscript. Trial. Vermont. Colden vs. Custis and Morgan. Movnt & Judgment. Woodstock VT September 21 1796. 12-3/4" x 8" 32.4 x 20.3 cm bifolium and 12-3/4" x 8" 32.4 x 20.3 cm leaf which was pinned to bifolium forming 6 pp. document. Text in neat hand to rectos and versos docketed on verso of final leaf. Content in neat hand. Moderate toning light soiling horizontal fold lines rubbing to edges short clean tears along folds pin holes to upper-inside corners. $250. In this post-Revolutionary land dispute the estate of Whitehead Hicks 1728-1780-a prominent Queens landowner judge and pre-Revolutionary Mayor of New York City 1766-1776-was represented by Cadwallader David Colden 1769-1834 a Long Island lawyer future abolitionist and later Mayor of New York City 1818-1821. Acting on behalf of the estate Colden sued two Vermont residents Elias Curtis written as Custis in court records and Isaac Morgan for back rent dating to 1775. The disputed property was located in the colonial-era Gloucester County New York-a territory including Woodstock that was absorbed into the newly declared state of Vermont in 1777. Prepared and intended for official filing this manuscript is divided into two distinct parts: a legal motion and a formal judgment which effectively placed the case on appeal. unknown books
1904ref. 694071904. London: HMSO 1904. London: HMSO 1904. A Notorious Case of Wrongful Conviction that Led to the Creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal Trial. Adolf Beck Case. Committee of Inquiry into the Case of Mr. Adolf Beck. Report from the Committee; Together with Minutes of Evidence Appendix And Facsimiles of Various Documents. Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office 1904. xix 5 7-334 pp. 4 folding tables of facsimile documents. Complete. Contemporary library buckram red and black calf lettering pieces and gilt library name to spine faint embossed library stamp to front board endleaves added and later removed. Light rubbing to extremities light scuffing to lettering pieces faint binder stamp to front pastedown hinges partially cracked light toning to text a few minor creases and tears to folding tables. $1500. Adolf Beck was twice the victim of wrongful conviction on two related cases due to mistaken identity. The efforts of the judge who presided over his second trial led to the establishment of a committee of inquiry chaired by the noted jurist and Master of the Rolls Sir Richard Henn Collins 1842-1911. The committee determined that Beck was convicted twice through unreliable methods of identification erroneous eyewitness testimony and a rush to convict the accused. Along with its influence on police procedure the committee's report led to the creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 2 in law libraries University of Michigan Yale. Other copies located at Harvard Law School and the Library of Congress. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:1014. unknown books
1876ref. 827311876. A Rare McDade Title Trial. Piper Thomas W. Defendant. Brown Edward P. Commonwealth of Massachusetts By Indictment Vs. Thomas W. Piper For the Murder of Mabel H. Young. Closing Argument for the Defence By Edward P. Brown Esq. Delivered February 9 1876. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son Printers 1876. 112 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Faint vertical crease through center light soiling and edgewear to wrappers spine worn away at ends front wrapper partially detached. Light toning to interior small embossed library stamp to head of leaf 7 pp. 49-50 another to head of title page small deaccession inkstamp to its verso. $350. Only edition. Piper was the sexton of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church in Boston. He lured a five-year-old girl into the church tower then beat her to death with a cricket bat. Circumstantial evidence linked him to the earlier murder of another girl and attacks on several others. Found guilty he was hanged on the scaffold that was used for another notable Boston murderer: Professor John W. Webster. This is a rare title. OCLC locates 7 copies 3 in law libraries Harvard Social Law University of Missouri. McDade The Annals of Murder 752. unknown books
1886ref. 742401886. The Personal Copy of the Author who was the Attorney General at the Time Trial. Goodwin Henry K. Defendant. Sherman Edgar J. 1834-1914. Commonwealth vs. Henry K. Goodwin: Charged by Indictment with the Wilful Murder of Albert D. Swan: Eighth Day of the Trial Before Charles Allen and William S. Gardner Justices. Edgar J. Sherman Attorney General Henry F. Hurlburt District Attorney For the Government. Benjamin F. Butler John P. Sweeney For the Prisoner. Argument of the Attorney General In Behalf of the Government. Lawrence MA: American Electric Job Print 1886. 43 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-3/4"; 22.2 x 14.6 cm. Stapled pamphlet in stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling a few tiny stains and moderate edgewear and chipping to wrappers which are partially detached but secure owner signature in faint pencil Edgar J. Sherman to front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior folds to lower outside corners of first 8 leaves. A very good copy. $500. Only edition. Goodwin shot Swan because he thought Swan was trying to cheat him out of his patents relating to the telephone. He was convicted of second degree murder. This pamphlet contains the argument of Edgar J. Sherman who led the state's case against Swan. It appears to have been his personal copy. Attorney general of Massachusetts from 1883 to 1887 Sherman went on to serve as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. This is a rare title. OCLC locates 5 copies 1 in a law library Social Law. McDade The Annals of Murder 360. unknown books
1817ref. 745791817. 2 titles in 1. 2 titles in 1. High-Stakes 1817 Irish Scandal: A Scarce Pair of "Crim. Con." Pamphlets Defended by Distinguished Anglo-Irish Barrister Phillips Trial. Blake Martin Joseph Defendant. Crim. Con. A Full Faithful & Impartial Report of that Curious Extraordinary and Interesting Trial with Speeches of Counsel and Judge's Charge In the Case Wherein Mark Browne Esq. Was Plaintiff and Martin Jos. Blake Esq. Defendant In an Action of Damages for Crim. Con. With the Plaintiff's Wife. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas Dublin On the 9th and 10th Days of July 1817 Before the Right Honorable Lord Norbury and a Special Jury of the City of Dublin; Damages laid at 30000. Dublin: Printed by J. Charles 1817. 48 pp. Bound with Phillips Charles 1787-1859. The Speech of Charles Phillips Esq. In the Case of Brown Versus Blake for Adultery; Delivered Before Lord Norbury and a Special Jury on the 9th July 1817. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia Press Office For John Cumming 1817. 31 pp. Octavo 8" x 5"; 20.3 x 12.7cm. Two titles bound together. Stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Two vertical fold lines to front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in places early library stamps to head of page 3 of Crim. Con. verso of title page head of page 7 and verso of final leaf of Speech. A very good copy of two scarce Irish legal pieces. $450. Crim. Con.: First edition; Speech: only edition. A second edition of Crim. Con. was published shortly after in 1817. Although it was a typical adultery trial Browne v. Blake attracted a fair amount of attention because of the high-stakes damages sought 30000 and the fact that Blake's lawyer was Charles Phillips: a leading Anglo-Irish barrister. Phillips was renowned for his oratory and expertise with adultery cases. Phillips successfully secured a defense verdict. Both titles are scarce. OCLC locates 5 copies of Crim. Con. all first editions 1 in a North American law library LA County and no copies of Speech. Crim. Con.: British Museum Catalogue Compact Edition 3:582. unknown books
1808ref. 818921808. The Renier Copy of an Unrecorded 1808 "Crim. Con." Trial Pamphlet: A Salacious Window into Regency Legality and Tabloid Culture Trial. Hodgson Charles Defendant. Crim. Con. Between a Lawyer's Clerk and His Mistress. Fairburn's Edition of the Trial Between Joseph Fowler An Attorney And Chas. Hodgson His Clerk For Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife Which was Tried at the Court of Common Pleas Before Lord Chief Justice Mansfield And a Special Jury July 13 1808. Taken in Short Hand. Embellished with an Engraved Frontispiece Representing "Her Dear Charles" Putting Her Ear-rings in Her Ears. London: Published by John Fairburn 1808. First and only edition. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5"; 21 x 12.7 cm. 17 1 pp. Folding frontispiece. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet housed in recent card folder with annotations to front. Moderate toning somewhat heavier to exterior faint offsetting to title page text block split between pages 10 and 11. Owner signature "Renier" to verso of frontispiece small ink "5" to upper outside corner of title page owner initials "AR" to upper inside corner of last page. A rare copy. $350. A fascinating and remarkably rare piece of early 19th-century street literature capturing a classic "Crim. Con." Criminal Conversation trial. In Regency England a husband could sue his wife's lover for damages based on the loss of her "society and comfort"-effectively treating a wife as a piece of stolen property. These trials provided the era's most reliable scandals and enterprising publishers like John Fairburn rushed shorthand transcripts into print to satisfy the public's appetite for voyeuristic melodrama. This specific case captures a classic downstairs scandal: Joseph Fowler an attorney discovered that his clerk Charles Hodgson was carrying on an affair with Mrs. Fowler. Though Fowler sued for substantial damages the court largely agreed that Mrs. Fowler was the aggressive instigator. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield subsequently declined to award a large sum granting Fowler a modest and rather humiliating 150. This pamphlet belonged to Anne Renier 1911-1988. She and her husband Fernand Gabriel Renier 1905-1988 were important collectors of popular books pamphlets and ephemera. OCLC locates 2 copies worldwide University of British Columbia University of Oxford. Librar. unknown books
1808ref. 719711808. Rare Trial Account With a Frontispiece by George and Isaac Cruikshank Trial. Paget Sir Arthur 1771-1840 Defendant. Cruikshank Isaac 1789-1856 Frontispiece. Cruikshank George 1792-1878 Frontispiece. Crim. Con. 10000 Damages. Smeeton's Edition of the Trial Between the Right Hon. Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget K.B. For Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife. Which was Tried in the Sheriffs' Court Before W. Burchall Esq. And a Special Jury July 19 1808. Taken in Short Hand. London: Published by G. Smeeton 18 James Street Long Acre 1808. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". 16 pp. Etched copperplate frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank assisted by George Cruikshank. Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into contemporary or near-contemporary flexible cloth gilt title to front cover frontispiece and several leaves re-hinged. Light rubbing to extremities bookplate of Fernand Gabriel and Anne Renier to front pastedown early owner inscription "Walter Scott His Book/ July 29 1808" to verso of frontispiece. Crack in text block between frontispiece and title page which is lightly soiled moderate toning to interior light foxing to first half of text block. $650. A rare account of one of the great scandals of the day which involved two well-known aristocrats who were active politicians. The criminal conversation occurred in 1808 when Paget eloped with Lady Augusta Fane then the wife of John Parker 1772-1840 2nd Baron Boringdon or Borringdon. Paget married her the following year two days after her divorce was granted. The Walter Scott who owned this copy was not the Scottish author. Fernand Gabriel and Anne Renier were important collectors of popular printed material. OCLC locates 1 copy Harvard. No copies listed on Library Hub. Cohn George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonne 85. unknown books
1867ref. 684671867. London 1867. London 1867. Was Dr. Hunter a Charlatan Trial. Hunter Robert Plaintiff. Pall Mall Gazette Respondent. Dr. Hunter Versus Pall Mall Gazette: Being a Verbatim Report of the Medical Evidence Given by Dr. Williams Dr. Risdon Bennett Dr. Orlando Markham Dr. George Johnson Dr. Cotton Dr. Richard Quain and Dr. Odling Showing Their Opinions on the Nature Causes and Cure of Consumption: With Explanatory Remarks by Dr. Hunter The Plaintiff. London: Printed by C. Mitchell and Co. 1867. 404 pp. 4 woodcut text illustrations. Octavo 8" x 5". Later library cloth red and black calf lettering pieces to spine. Light soiling and shelfwear some chipping to edges of lettering pieces. Moderate toning to text minor stains to a few leaves light soiling a faint stain and a library stamp to title page library annotations to verso. A scarce title. $1000. Only edition. One of the most famous cases of its day it is fascinating for it insights into medical jurisprudence the Victorian medical profession and the treatment of tuberculosis consumption. Hunter an American doctor had antagonized English doctors by claiming to have developed a better set of therapies to treat the tuberculosis. A shrewd self-promoter he publicized his views widely and attracted a large number of patients. He had several critics. One of them published an article attacking him in the Pall Mall Gazette titled "Dupes and Imposters." Hunter sued. After many hours of medical testimony the jury "vindicated" Hunter but awarded him only 1 farthing in damages. This contemptuous award indicated that the jury considered him a charlatan. OCLC locates 12 copies 3 in North American law libraries Harvard Jenkins Social Law. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School II:1109. unknown books
1830ref. 729131830. Edinburgh: Printed for Daniel Lizars 1830. Edinburgh: Printed for Daniel Lizars 1830. A Notable Scottish Estate Case Trial. Roy Robert Defendant. MacGregor Simon Reporter. Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury Thomas Mackenzie Esq. Against Robert Roy Esq. W.S. Reported by Simon MacGregor. May 11 1830. Edinburgh: Printed for Daniel Lizars by Ballantyne and Co. 1830. 84 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing to board edges. Light toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places. $250. Only edition. Roy a Scottish lawyer was accused of swindling an estate from his client Kenneth Mackenzie of Dundonnell by Mackenzie's son Thomas. The trial attracted several notable legal names among them Henry Cockburn who had secured an acquittal for Helen McDougal in the famous Burke and Hare murder trial the year before. His jury address and the exchanges between counsel are well-documented in our account. The jury was split and a second trial was held in January 1831 which resulted in Roy's conviction. OCLC locates 10 copies of this title 4 in North America Library of Congress University of Minnesota Law Harvard Law Los Angeles County Law. unknown books
1918ref. 823221918. Chicago: General Defense Committee 1918. Chicago: General Defense Committee 1918. An Important Trial for Organized Labor Trial. Haywood William 1869-1928. Evidence and Cross-Examination of William D. Haywood in the Case of the U.S.A. vs. Wm. D. Haywood et al. Chicago: General Defense Committee 1918. 312 pp. Portrait. Stapled in stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling and faint creasing to wrappers owner signature Olga S. Halsey and small tear to head of front wrapper faint stain to rear wrapper tearing to spine. Light toning partial crack in text block after title page all leaves secure internally clean. $450. The Haywood trial concerned the murder of Frank R. Steunenberg who had called in federal troops to break miners' strikes as former governor of Idaho. Harry Orchard a former member of the Western Federation of Miners confessed to the crime but when threatened with hanging claimed that he had committed the murder on the orders of senior members of WFM leadership including William "Big Bill" Haywood. Haywood and two other men implicated in the plot were extradited to Idaho from Colorado and tried for murder. The trial became a flashpoint for organized labor. Famed American attorney Clarence Darrow led Haywood's defense successfully undermining Orchard's character and securing an acquittal after one of the passionate closing summaries that would become his trademark as an attorney. Olga Spencer Halsey c.1889-1970 the probable former owner of this item was a social scientist and researcher for the American Association for Labor Legislation. A passionate advocate of health insurance reform she drafted some of the first health insurance legislation in the U.S. unknown books
1809ref. 783081809. A Shilling for His Reputation": An Ironic Libel Suit Brought by a Convicted Libeler - Exceptionally Rare Trial. Tipper Samuel Defendant. Finnerty Peter c.1766-1822 Plaintiff. Finnerty v. Tipper. A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the Action Brought by Peter Finnerty Against Samuel Tipper Publisher of "The Satirist" For a Libel. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas Before Sir James Mansfield And a Special Jury On Saturday The 18th of February Last. Taken in Shorthand by an Eminent Reporter; With Some Prefatory Observations and Notes by the Editor. London: Printed for J.M. Richardson 1809. vii 80 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2"; 22.2 x 14 cm. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet retaining its original untrimmed edges. Moderate toning light intermittent foxing and minor soiling in a few places. Leaves starting at the head but remaining firmly secure. A well-preserved survival of a fragile production. $1500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION. First and only edition. This exceptionally rare verbatim report captures a deeply ironic moment in British legal history: a notorious libeler bringing a civil suit for libel to protect a reputation he barely possessed. The plaintiff Peter Finnerty was a fiery Irish radical publisher and journalist whose career was defined by legal battles against the British establishment. In 1797 he was convicted of seditious libel for publishing works sympathetic to the United Irishmen rebellion. Finnerty's relentless anti-establishment crusade made him a celebrated figure among Romantic radicals; the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley famously wrote and published A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things 1811 specifically to raise funds for Finnerty's mounting legal fees and support him during his imprisonment. By 1809 Finnerty was once again in the government's crosshairs facing new libel charges after publishing a pamphlet exposing the Duke of York's scandalous sale of military promotions the infamous Mary Anne Clarke affair. While Finnerty awaited trial for this offense Samuel Tipper publisher of the fiercely Tory and pro-establishment magazine The Satirist launched a vicious print attack on him. Refusing to take the insult lying down Finnerty swiftly brought a civil libel suit against Tipper i. unknown books
1857ref. 839041857. 4 titles in 1 book. 4 titles in 1 book. Account of a Famous Glasgow Murder Trial Bound with Three Other Diverting Books Trial. Smith Madeleine 1835-1928 Defendant. Glasgow Poisoning Case. Unabridged Report of the Evidence in this Extraordinary Trial With All the Passionate Love Letters Written by the Prisoner to the Deceased And Numerous Illustrations Including Portrait of Madeleine Smith. London: George Vickers Angel Court Strand 1857. 77 pp. 7 woodcut plates 3 folding. Only edition. Bound After Ward Artemus Pseud. of Charles Farrar Browne 1834-1867. Artemus Ward His Book: Being the Confessions & Experiences of a Showman. London: S.O. Beeton 248 Strand W.C. 1865. viii 168 pp. Half-title lacking. Later edition; first published in 1862. And Barnum P.T. 1810-1891. The Life of P.T. Barnum Written by Himself. Author's Edition. London: Sampson Low Son & Co. 47 Ludgate Hill 1855. viii 372 pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Woodcut text illustrations. First London edition published the same year as the first edition New York 1855. And Hawthorne Nathaniel. Pansie: A Fragment. The Last Literary Effort of Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly 1864. 48 pp. Only edition. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4"; 15.9 x 10.2 cm. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Some bubbling and rubbing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to fore-edges of boards front joints just starting at ends corners bumped and moderately worn hinges cracked some bubbling to pastedowns bookplate residue to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior wear and clean tears to folding frontispiece of Glasgow Poisoning Case one tear mended with cellotape. A very good volume overall. $450. These unrelated small-format titles may have been assembled to provide diversion to a traveler. It includes a book of humorous sketches by Ward Barnum's entertaining and inspiring autobiography the first part of Hawthorne's novel The Dolliver Romance and an account of a famous murder trial. In 1855 Smith a Glasgow socialite began a passionate affair with Pierre Emile L'Angelier. When her parents found a more suitable match she attempted to break the relationship but he threatened to use their love letters to expose her if she did not marry him. He died from arsenic poisoning. unknown books
1795ref. 683871795. London 1795. First edition. London 1795. First edition. The Pop-Gun Plot Trial. Lemaitre Paul Thomas Defendant. High Treason!! Narrative of the Arrest Examinations Before the Privy Council And Imprisonment of P.T Lemaitre Accused of Being a Party in the Pop-Gun Plot or A Pretended Plot to Kill the King! In Which is Introduced the Correspondence with the Privy Council. London: Printed for P.T. Lemaitre 1795. ii 60 pp. Lacking half-title. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed edges. Light soiling to exterior "12." in early hand to upper corner of title page. Moderate toning to text final leaf which has two clean tears with no loss to text partially detached and lightly edgeworn. $750. First edition. The Popgun Plot was an alleged 1794 conspiracy by three members of the London Corresponding Society a British Radical organization to assassinate King George III with a poison dart fired from a pop-gun airgun. Lemaitre was one of four men indicted as conspirators and charged with treason. All four were acquitted in May 1796 because the chief witness against them died. Our pamphlet is the primary account of this case. A second edition was published in 1795. Both editions are rare. OCLC locates 16 copies of both editions 1 in a North American law library Social Law which has a first edition. English Short-Title Catalogue T81543. unknown books
1817ref. 657281817. With a Duplicate Colored Frontispiece Annotated by George Cruikshank Trial. Thistlewood Arthur 1770-1820 Defendant. Watson James Defendant. Preston Thomas Defendant. Hooper John Defendant. Cruikshank Isaac 1764-1811 Illustrator. Cruikshank George 1792-1878 Annotation. High Treason!! The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of Arthur Thistlewood Gent. James Watson The Elder Surgeon Thomas Preston Cordwainer And John Hooper Labourer: Upon an Indictment Found Against Them for High Treason. Fairburn's Edition. London: Printed by W. Marchant; Published by John Fairburn 1817. 23 parts comprising 360 numbered columns. Folding frontispiece two plates. Complete. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4"; 22.86 x 14.60 cm. Original plain paper-covered publisher boards with contrasting spine untrimmed edges. Some soiling and staining moderate edgewear spine abraded and worn front board detached early owner signature L. Palmer and later owner bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin 1868-1934 to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text minor oil stains and dampstains to a few leaves. Brief annotations in pencil to front pastedown and verso folding plates both entry references to Douglas's Works of George Cruikshank interior otherwise clean. Duplicate of folding frontispiece hand-colored and with an annotation by George Cruikshank laid in. It is lightly soiled lightly edgeworn and beginning to tear along fold lines later reference annotation to Douglas bibliography to top margin. Items housed in a quarter-morocco over cloth slipcase with raised bands and gilt title to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities. A unique copy of a rare title. $950. First and only edition. A "Fairburn's Edition" which provides the "whole proceedings" of the trials. It includes verbatim accounts of the evidence presented arguments from defense attorneys and the cross-examination of witnesses. The trials occurred during a period of significant post-Napoleonic War economic hardship and political repression in Britain. The defendants were part of a movement advocating for radical reforms like universal suffrage and land redistribution. The men organized two mass meetings at Spa Fields to protest and petition the Prince Regent. While the first meeting was largely peaceful the second on December 2 1816 devolved into a riot. unknown books
