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- Title:
- The Whole Proceeding upon the Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King, In the Court of King's Bench [together with seventeen related works]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner [imprints vary], London, 1722-23.
- Description:
- An extensive sammelband collecting the essential contemporary works documenting the failed Jacobite uprising of 1722, leading to the trial and execution of Layer (and others) and the banishment of Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, staining to some works and some browning, yet altogether easily usable; further details gladly provided
- Book No.:
- W-76239
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Gurney (rptr.), Joseph
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Information Exhibited ex Officio by the King's Attorney-General Against Thomas Paine For a Libel upon the Revolution and Settlement of the Crown . . . and also upon the Bill of Rights . . . and upon the King [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sold by Martha Gurney, No. 128, Holborn-Hill, London, 1793.
- Description:
- First edition of the most extensive account of the trial of Thomas Paine, including Erskine's famed if futile defense, emphasising the crucial difference between mere words and words designed to incite illegal action (and so anticipating Holmes)
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a very good copy, without the final two advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78202
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- A Short, but Just Account of the Tryal of Benjamin Harris, upon an Information Brought against him For Printing and Vending a late Seditious Book called An Appeal from the Country To the City, For the Preservation of His Majesties Person [&c]. Wing S3565
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year 1679 [i.e. 1680], London, 1679.
- Description:
- The sole account of Harris' trial, "a strange combination of seditious libel and scandalum magnatum", influential upon the writings of Henry Care and John Hawles and on emerging libel doctrine, "reviv[ing] the claim to the jury's right to decide law"
- Condition:
- Modern buckram over boards, ex-library, some foxing and browning, but a usable copy; folio, eight pages
- Book No.:
- W-76119
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, libel and slander, juries
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- California Judges Benchbook: Civil Proceedings--Discovery [together with] Discovery Update 2000 [together with] Discovery Update 2004. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Thomson West [for the Judicial Council of California], n.p., 1994-2004.
- Description:
- The original edition and the 2000 and 2004 updates of this portion of the first benchbook of its kind in the United States, designed as a comprehensive, eminently practical guide for California judges presiding over civil trials
- Condition:
- Original green buckram and green wraps, very good copies
- Book No.:
- W-91568
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Baldwin, Andrew Knapp and William
- Title:
- The New Newgate Calendar; Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters, Who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England, During the Seventeenth Century, Brought Down to the Present Time [etc.] [title varies]. Five Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane [etc.] [imprint varies], London and Liverpool, n.d..
- Description:
- Seemingly the earliest issuance of Knapp and Baldwin's massive five volume compilation, describing the actions of (inter alia) "traitors, murderers, ravishers, pirates, sharpers, fraudulent bankrupts, imposters, and thieves of every description"
- Condition:
- 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, a sumptuous Riviere binding, joints rubbed, two cracking but firm, extensively illustrated; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79621
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Philip N. Jones, et al v. Gillette Safety Razor Company, et al. Requests of the Defendants Aldred and Fuller for Findings of Fact. Commonwealth of Massachuetts, Supreme Judicial Court, In Equity
- Publisher:
- The Oxford Press, Providence, 1954.
- Description:
- Part of the litigation arising out of the merger between Gillette and AutoStrop, bringing into Gillette's fold the patent rights to AutoStrop's Probak blade, complicated by the Depression and by mis-stated earnings of Gillette's operating head
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn oversized wraps, a bit worn, but a good copy; 141 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91251
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, trials
- Author:
- Salmon, Thomas
- Title:
- A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials, and Impeachments for High-Treason . . . The Whole containing, I. The Substance of the Indictment or Charge. II. The Evidence. III. The Prisoner's Defence. IV. The several Points of Law [etc.] Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and J. Hazard [and six others] [etc.], London, 1738.
- Description:
- A major abridgement of the first edition of the state trials, undertaken by the latter's editor, Thomas Salmon, and itself a substantial folio of over 900 pages reporting trials spanning more than three centuries and adding a critical apparatus
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over boards, unevenly faded, some browning and occasional foxing, yet a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72149
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey [etc.]. Taken in Short-hand By Joseph Gurney. Four Volumes in Two
- Publisher:
- Sold by Martha Gurney, Bookseller, Holborn Hill, London, 1794-95.
- Description:
- The most extensive of all the reports of the trial including "one of the great speeches of [Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled throughout England
- Condition:
- Modern brown cloth, gilt, some foxing and staining, a few tears, the binding a bit strained, yet a good usable set
- Book No.:
- W-70759
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47353
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- Repertoire General des Causes Celebres Anciennes et Modernes, Redige par une Societe d'Hommes de Lettres, sous la Direction de B. Saint-Edme [etc.]. Deuxieme Serie--Tome III [and IV] [only]
- Publisher:
- Louis Rosier, Editeur, Paris, 1854.
- Description:
- The first volume devoted to the Girondins and Philippe Egalite, with the second to eight matters, including several women, among them Madame Bolard and the Comtesse du Barri
- Condition:
- Marbled boards, rebacked in cloth, the front board detached; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-91737
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours [with] A Supplement [in two volumes] to the Four Volumes of the First Edition. Six Volumes [complete]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for Timothy Goodwin [and five others] [imprints vary], London, 1719-30.
- Description:
- First edition of the state trials, the massive effort continued and expanded upon for over a century and offering (in Holdsworth's words) "a unique value for constitutional and legal historians, and a very considerable value [for many others]"
- Condition:
- Contemporary panelled calf, quite worn, joints cracked, one board loose, spines varnished, the bindings not uniform, minor staining; a clean working set
- Book No.:
- W-78098
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal and Condemnation of Sir John Friend . . . For Conspiring to Raise Rebellion in These Kingdoms . . . Who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High-Treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons [etc.], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The penultimate instance under English law (the last the next day) in which a defendant was charged with treason and hanged without benefit of counsel, Friend arraigned just two days before Parliament enacted enabling legislation
- Condition:
- A good copy, in a modern 1/4 calf gilt over marbled boards
- Book No.:
- W-59212
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Minutes of the Proceedings before the Lords Committees for Privileges, On the Claim to the Title of Earl of Anglesey
- Publisher:
- N.p., Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A rare work recording the final decision upon the English estates part of "the most dramatic case ever arising under British law", memorialized in part in Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle" and featuring multiple bigamous marriages, forgery and perjury
- Condition:
- Original stabbed marbled wraps, lightly worn, a very good crisp copy, 64 pages, with the date of 1771 changed manually to 1772; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76948
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, law of heraldry, Law and Literature, criminal law, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Proceedings Before the Court of Session, in the Case of M'Iver v. M'Iver
- Publisher:
- William P. Nimmo, 2 St. David Street, Edinburgh, 1859.
- Description:
- The husband's divorce action which, though unsuccessful, discloses the risks to a wife of the slightest suspicious action, a split court finding that Mrs. M'Iver's meeting with a youthful love fatally ill with consumption just barely not adultery
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, faded, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-52693
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, divorce, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Liability Seminar, California Trial Lawyers Association
- Publisher:
- Trial Lawyers Service Co., Belleville, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55247
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Crim. Con., Actions and Trials and Other Legal Proceedings Relating to Marriage before the Passing of the Present Divorce Act
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1857?].
- Description:
- A review of the most famous crim con cases spanning three centuries, in which husbands sued their wives' paramours for civil damages caused by the "criminal conversation" and ensuing loss of consortium; with two involving Thomas Erskine as counsel
- Condition:
- Original 1/4 black morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, showing wear and somewhat strained, else a good untrimmed copy
- Book No.:
- W-71567
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal conversatn, trials, marriage, divorce
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trials Of all the Prisoners Who Were Try'd at the Assizes held at Maidstone, for the County of Kent . . . before the Hon. Sir Thomas Denison, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Griffith . . . in the Little Old Bailey, London, 1750.
- Description:
- A rare example of criminal trials at assizes "in the country", twenty-five in total, for, among other crimes, robbery, arson, rape (two; one of a ten-year old), and stealing a mare, with jury verdicts from acquittal to death; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Later plain wraps, printed decorated paper label, hand-lettered, showing wear and a very little worming, else a good wide-margined copy; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76399
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Rape, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- An Impartial Account of the Trial of the Lord Co[r]nwallis. Wing I78
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1679.
- Description:
- One of the last trials in the Court of the Lord High Steward, its procedure to be distinguished from trials of peers in the House of Lords; presided over by Heneage Finch, with Serjeant Maynard and Sir William Jones, among others, for the prosecution
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, a very little embrowned, but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-43471
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Life of Mr. James Quin Comedian, with the History of the State . . . Illustrated with Many Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Distinction, Literature, and Gallantry . . . Together with His Trial for the Murder of Mr. Bowen
- Publisher:
- No Publisher, London, 1887.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern crushed brown morocco, top edge gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, without the index at pages 102-07
- Book No.:
- W-79215
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Theatre, biography, criminal law, trials, Grangerized
- Author:
- Hayward, Max (ed.)
- Title:
- On Trial, The Soviet State Versus "Abram Tertz" and "Nikolai Arzhak". Revised and Enlarged Edition
- Publisher:
- Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
- Description:
- The edited trial transcript, undertaken by Hayward, fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, and co-translator of Dr. Zhivago
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-45061
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial of the Information ex Officio, The King versus John Lambert and Another [James Perry], On a Charge of Libel on His Majesty's Person Inserted in The Morning Chronicle. Edited by James Perry. Not in McCoy [compare McCoy 1C380]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Lambert, Strand for James Ridgway [etc.], London, 1810.
- Description:
- The trial account contributing to expanding freedom of the press in early 19th century England, in part due to Lord Ellenborough's evenhanded charge to the jury (which acquitted), and despite William Garrow's efforts prosecuting as attorney general
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label, a very good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-77923
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- libel and slander, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Lives, Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, and Richard Tidd, For High Treason
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. & T Sweet, Strood, London.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern card protective covers, original self sewn illustrated wraps, quite worn and fragile, yet usable; 8 pages
- Book No.:
- W-19881
- Price:
- $ 437.50
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial Wherein Miss D--v--s [Davis] was Plaintiff, and the Rev. Dr. W-l-n [Wilson], Defendant. In an action of Ten Thousand Pounds . . . for the Non-Performance of a Marriage-Contract: When the Plaintiff . . . recover'd Seven Thousand Pounds Damages
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Price near Ludgate [etc.], London, 1747.
- Description:
- The rare account of the trial which set "[t]he largest award on record" in a breach of promise suit, as the action became firmly established in the common law courts in the mid-18th century, displacing the ecclesiastical courts in such cases
- Condition:
- Modern stabbed marbled wraps, printed paper label, a trifle dusty, else a very good, untrimmed copy, 24 pages; six copies in ESTC, none in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-78102
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, women's law, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg. For High-Treason, For Conspiring The Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion in This Kingdom. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily [etc.]. Wing T2265
- Publisher:
- Printed for Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn, London, 1683.
- Description:
- The principal contemporary account of the trial of the plot's conspirators, leading to the execution of Lord Russell (and Algernon Sydney) and contributing mightily if indirectly to the Glorious Revolution and the reform of the English law of treason
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, edges cut close; quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-66563
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of . . . John Stockdale; for a Libel on the House of Commons . . . To Which is Subjoined, An Argument in Support of the Rights of Juries [bound with] Four Letters on the Subject of Mr. Stockdale's Trial [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, Opposste [sic] Burlington-House [etc], London, 1790.
- Description:
- Conceivably Erskine's most important argument in defense of freedom of the press, leading up to the enactment of Fox's Libel Act; with Erskine's equally famed argument in the Dean of St. Asaph case, arguing for jury determination of libel, appended
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 blue calf, somewhat rubbed, but a good, crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-61310
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. . . . and Others; for the Murder of Pat. Ran. M'Donnell, and Charles Hipson . . . Also, The Trial of John Gallagher and Others, for an Assault on Geo. Rob. Fitzgerald [etc.]. Second Edition. O'Higgins 4.147.b&c
- Publisher:
- Printed by P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- The final episode in the life of a county Mayo scion "noted for his gallantry, his recklessness, and his duels", who abducted his brother, was betrayed by his father, left for dead in a prison attack, and here tried for murder for which he was hanged
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, the joints cracking and tender but holding, else attractive; with the armorial bookplate of Viscount Bulkeley dated 1785
- Book No.:
- W-74469
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, IRELAND
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16019
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Cases of Divorce for Several Causes; Viz. I. Memoirs of the Life of Robert Feilding II. The Case of Barbara late Dutchess of Cleaveland III. The Case of Sir George Downing IV. The Case of John Dormer V. The Case of the Lord Roos [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible [etc.], London, 1723.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-77314
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Wilson, for High Treason, With an Account of His Execution at Glasgow, September 1820 . . . Now Respectfully Submitted to the Consideration of the Reformers of Glasgow, By . . . The Exposer of the Spy System [Peter Mackenzie]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by Muir, Gowans, & Co. [etc.], Glasgow, 1832.
- Description:
- Three accounts of Wilson's trial, one of three individuals executed for participating in the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, later discovered by Mackenzie to have been instigated by government agents, leading to the pardon of all the other insurgents
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 48 pages; five copies in OCLC, one in Scotland
- Book No.:
- W-77513
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law, Radicals
- Author:
- Buller, Francis
- Title:
- An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for C. Bathurst [&c.], London, 1772.
- Description:
- First London edition of the work which won renown for Buller, protege of Mansfield and appointed a King's Bench judge at a very youthful 32, designed for 'nisi prius' trials, that is, those in the country; with a closing part on trial issues
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, the joints cracked but holding and the spine somewhat darkened, else very clean with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79509
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of . . . John Stockdale; for a Libel on the House of Commons . . . To Which is Subjoined, An Argument in Support of the Rights of Juries
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, Opposste [sic] Burlington-House [etc], London, 1790.
- Description:
- Conceivably Erskine's most important argument in defense of freedom of the press, leading up to the enactment of Fox's Libel Act; with Erskine's equally famed argument in the Dean of St. Asaph case, arguing for jury determination of libel, appended
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf backed boards, joints splitting; sound
- Book No.:
- W-16938
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- History of Eugene Aram, Who Was Convicted at York Assizes, of the Murder of Dan'l Clark of Knaresborough, Fourteen Years after the Crime was committed [and the] Singular and Talented Defence he made on his trial [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by W.&T. Fordyce, 15, Grey Street, Newcastle, 1840.
- Description:
- A rare account of the crime immortalized in Bulwer Lytton's novel 'Eugene Aram', "the first English novel in which sympathy is solicited for a real-life murderer", with parallels drawn to Stendhal; no print copy in OCLC, one copy in COPAC
- Condition:
- Modern gray sewn wraps, light browning, a small hole at the bottom of the last leave affecting a few words, else a very good untrimmed copy; 24 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77833
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of the Bishop of Bangor and Others, Before Mr. Justice Heath, at the Assises at Shrewsbury . . . For an Assault, Rout, and Riot: With the Pleadings at Large Of Counsellors Adam and Erskine; Also the Charge to the Jury By Mr. Justice Heath
- Publisher:
- Sold by T. Hepinstall, Fleet Street [and two others], London, 1796.
- Description:
- Erskine's "masterly acquittal" of John Warren who, as Bishop of Bangor and with several confederates, was tried for rioting, achieved despite Justice's Heath's summing up for conviction, forcefully disclosing Erskine's strategic and courtroom talents
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over boards, somewhat marked and faded, very occasional staining, a few modern pencil marks, yet a good copy; with the half title
- Book No.:
- W-79219
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, Religion
- Author:
- Lane, Jane
- Title:
- Titus Oates
- Publisher:
- Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1949.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a bit worn and foxed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-63512
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Salmon, Thomas
- Title:
- A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials, and Impeachments for High-Treason . . . The Whole containing, I. The Substance of the Indictment or Charge. II. The Evidence. III. The Prisoner's Defence. IV. The several Points of Law [etc.] Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and J. Hazard [and six others] [etc.], London, 1738.
- Description:
- A major abridgement of the first edition of the state trials, undertaken by the latter's editor, Thomas Salmon, and itself a substantial folio of over 900 pages reporting trials spanning more than three centuries and adding a critical apparatus
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the original spine laid down, rubbed, definite browning and foxing, but a sound usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76691
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal of Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Before the Peers in Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 4th of April 1678. Wing T2209. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1679.
- Description:
- A fine example of the peculiarities of English law, the Earl, indicted for murder, claiming his right to be tried by his peers in the House of Lords, is there convicted of manslaughter only, and so invokes his privilege of peerage and is discharged
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, re-sewn and repaired, ink squiggles, notations and markings on the title, else a good clean copy; no copy in a law library in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76192
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, House of Lords, criminal law
- Author:
- Buller, Francis
- Title:
- An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius. The Second Edition, with Large Additions
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers [etc.], London, 1775.
- Description:
- The work which won renown for Buller, protege of Mansfield and appointed a King's Bench judge at a very youthful 32, designed for 'nisi prius' trials, that is, those in the country and not at Westminster; with a closing part on trial issues
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind ruled and decorated, crimson morocco label, gilt, very lightly rubbed, else especially fresh and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79391
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of the Tryal of Richard Lyddel, Esq; At His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas, Before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Eyre, For Carrying on a Criminal Conversation With the Late Lady Abergavenny. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's [etc.] [a false imprint?], London, 1730.
- Description:
- A rare contemporary printing of a famous adultery case reprinted later in the century, "a gripping moral epic of sin, guilt, repentance, and punishment", the award of 10,000 pounds damages effectively and designedly putting Lyddell in prison for life
- Condition:
- Original stabbed self wraps folded in half horizontally, front and back dusty but otherwise a very good copy in original state; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-18121
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, adultery
- Author:
- Title:
- The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges: Exhibiting . . . III. The Crimes of Empson and Dudley . . . IV. The Proceedings of the Ship money Judges . . . To which is added VI. The Judges Oath, and some Observations thereupon [etc.]. Wing T2297. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms [etc.], London, 1681.
- Description:
- First edition of a populist tract of the first rank, recounting with approval the executions of oppressive judges and praising upright judges and juries (including Sir Matthew Hale and the jury acquitting Penn and Mead) and habeas corpus
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, quite browned, 36 pages, now preserved in a modern buckram folding case, its label gilt lettered; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79631
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, legal reform, juries, habeas corpus
- Author:
- Salmon, Thomas (ed.)
- Title:
- A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials. Wherein are inserted, Several Trials not in any other Collection . . . Likewise, Remarks are made on each Trial, shewing what the Law in Criminal Cases anciently was [etc.]. 2d Edition. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Leathley, G. Ewing, W. Smith, and P. Crampton etc., Dublin, 1741.
- Description:
- A major abridgement of the first edition of the state trials, undertaken by the latter's editor, Thomas Salmon, reporting trials spanning more than three centuries; possibly a unique set, the first volume extending to p.482, the second to p.918
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn and somewhat stained, one gathering loose and the last index leaf frayed, else a good set, the volumes' division not as in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77689
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges Preferred against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in Chief . . . With all the other Documents produced in the Course of the Investigation [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, London, 1809.
- Description:
- The transcript of the proceedings in the House of Commons forcing the resignation of George III's second son, Frederick Augustus, as Commander in Chief, unwittingly caught in the web of his mistress's successful influencing-peddling efforts
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 morocco, rubbed, some embrowning; quite a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-59041
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury; As it was Argued before His Majesties Justices of the Kings Bench . . . Being upon his Confinement in the Tower . . . With a Speech of this Worthy Earl, pleading his own Case, and the Liberty of the Subject. Wing C883
- Publisher:
- Printed by K.P. for C.R., London, 1679.
- Description:
- Only edition of Shaftsbury's unsuccessful attempt to secure his release from the Tower of London on a writ of habeas corpus, "a very powerful argument . . . den[ying] . . . commit[ment] to indefinite imprisonment on a general warrant"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, upper right hand corner of the title torn away, just touching the 'e' of 'Case', else a clean, untrimmed copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76227
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, habeas corpus
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17299
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48940
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament . . . Published by Order of the House of Peers
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, London, 1776.
- Description:
- A rare example of the trial of a peeress in the House of Lords (with the Duchess personally appearing and testifying), finding her guilty of bigamy and essentially ending the ecclesiastical action of 'jactitation', the denial of a previous marriage
- Condition:
- Original buff wraps, untrimmed, a lovely, unsophisticated folio
- Book No.:
- W-62376
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, marriage
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