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- Author:
- Hollis, Christopher
- Title:
- The Homicide Act, The First Thorough Examination of How the Homicide Act Has Been Working in Practice
- Publisher:
- Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-14027
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Toch, Hans
- Title:
- Police, Prisons, and the Problem of Violence
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit soiled, but quite sound; 142 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90119
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law
- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- 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:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- History of the Common Law [etc.] [with] An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law. The Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1779.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Hale's classic works, prepared by Charles Runnington who (in Holdsworth's words) "prefixed a life of Hale, and added very extensive notes"; Hale's 'Analysis', though not called for by the title page, is appended
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit embrowned, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-66012
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law, English Law
- Author:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Domestic Criminal Violence, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit wrinkled, but quite sound; 363 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90124
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, Bibliography
- Author:
- Morland, Nigel
- Title:
- An Outline of Sexual Criminology
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing Co., New York, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-15700
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Crime and the Abuse of Power: Offences and Offenders beyond the Reach of the Law?
- Publisher:
- International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, Milan, 1980.
- Description:
- Contributions to the Sixth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit soiled, but a sound copy; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90355
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Liktorius, Alvita and David J. Stang
- Title:
- Altruism, Bystander Intervention, and Helping Behavior: A Bibliography
- Publisher:
- N.p., 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 44 photocopied pages
- Book No.:
- W-90236
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Chappell, Duncan, et al.
- Title:
- Criminal Investigation: A Selective Literature Review and Bibliography
- Publisher:
- Criminology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 1981.
- Description:
- States "Not for publication, citation, or further distribution."
- Condition:
- Plastic spiral-bound wraps; 78 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90283
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Wilson, Paul R.
- Title:
- The Other Side of Rape
- Publisher:
- University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps with a bit of ink underlining, presentation copy
- Book No.:
- W-90087
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law, criminal law
- Author:
- Kirchoff, Gerd Ferdinand
- Title:
- Basic Concepts in Victimology
- Publisher:
- Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, 1989.
- Description:
- Lecture to a course, "The Victim and the Criminal Justice System"
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, photocopied; 19 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90162
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Victimology
- Author:
- Pulton, Ferdinando
- Title:
- De Pace Regis et Regni, viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great and generall Offences of the Realme . . . as Treasons, Homicides, and Felonies, Menaces, Assaults, Batteries, Ryots, Routs, Vnlawfull assemblies [etc.]. S.T.C. 20497. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1615.
- Description:
- The penultimate edition of the first work on English criminal law written in English, exceptionally thorough, called by Holdsworth "comprehensive and well arranged", with extensive (even exhaustive) references and sidenotes complementing the text
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, a bit rubbed, rebacked, some fore-margins cut close, but legibility preserved, particularly clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78368
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Petersilia, Joan
- Title:
- Expanding Options for Criminal Sentencing
- Publisher:
- Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 110 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90357
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Penology
- Author:
- Cumming, Sir John
- Title:
- A Contribution Towards a Bibliography Dealing with Crime and Cognate Subjects. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, New Scotland Yard, London, 1935.
- Description:
- The third edition of a work first published in 1914, covering a fifty year period, arranged by subject with cross-indexes by author, geography and subject, emphasising England and the Commonwealth
- Condition:
- Original limp wraps, interleaved, showing wear; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-20498
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, criminal law
- Author:
- Speed, Samuel
- Title:
- Fragmenta Carceris: Or, The Kings-Bench Scuffle; with the Humors of the Common-Side. The Kings Bench Letany, and the Legend of Duke Humphrey. Wing S4901. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.R. for Tho. Rooks at the Lamb and Ink Bottle [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- The work in verse dedicated to his fellow prisoners by Speed, the bookseller arrested on charges of publishing and distributing seditious works, full of irony and humor, opining that "Wisdom is the Wing of the Soul", in or out of prison
- Condition:
- Later mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, the original spine laid down, light browning, the margins cut close (main text unaffected); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79917
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Poetry, humor, prisons, Law and Literature, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XIIII Reginae Elizabethe. At the parliament begunne and holden at Westminster . . . in the xiiii yeere of the raigne [1572] of our most gracious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth . . . were enacted as folowith. S.T.C. 9478; Beale S296
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Powles Churche yarde by Richard Jugge [etc.], London, 1573-75.
- Description:
- The Parliament convened at the height of the perceived threat of Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth, the law of treason strengthened and the penalties upon those attempting to rescue those held, as Mary was, on charges of treason enhanced [c.2]
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 calf, somewhat rubbed and lightly browned, the act on vagabonds and relief of the poor [c.5] with an extensive gloss; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79411
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, poor law
- Author:
- Madan, Martin
- Title:
- Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits. Dedicated to the Judges of Assize; And recommended to the Perusal of All Magistrates; and to all Persons who are liable to serve on Crown Juries
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, London, 1785.
- Description:
- An important part of the literature on capital punishment, criticizing the overly frequent granting of pardons and reprieves, prompting a response from a youthful Samuel Romilly and marking the beginning of the public debate on the death penalty
- Condition:
- First edition, in a contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, else very clean and bright, G.D. Squibb's copy with his bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79765
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- legal reform, criminal law, capital punishment
- Author:
- Rubin, Sol
- Title:
- Psychiatry and Criminal Law, Illusions, Fictions, and Myths
- Publisher:
- Oceana Publications, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, 1965.
- Description:
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, note criminologist and authority on all aspects of social deviance: "Gil -- Warmest regards to a sensitive & understanding guy. Sol"
- Condition:
- Black cloth, a bit faded, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-90218
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, law and psychiatry
- Author:
- Fitzherbert, Anthony
- Title:
- Loffice Et aucthoritie de Iustices de peace, in part collect per le iades tresreuerend iudge, Mounsieur A. Fitzherbert et ore enlarge per Richard Crompton, vn Apprentice de le common ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 10978; Beale T329
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Richarde Tottill, London, 1583.
- Description:
- First edition of Crompton's major expansion of Fitzherbert's classic work, his separate treatment of the justices, their jurisdiction and powers, anticipating Lambarde and Dalton; with for the only time the valuable index compiled by William West
- Condition:
- Modern calf, double blind ruled, gilt lettered, light browning, lacking one leaf (folio 177), else well preserved with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79423
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, coroners, criminal law, sheriffs
- Author:
- Jones, William
- Title:
- An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots. With a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Dilly, in The Poultry, London, 1782.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a bit embrowned; attractive
- Book No.:
- W-15620
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- bailments, criminal law
- Author:
- Moley, Raymond
- Title:
- Our Criminal Courts
- Publisher:
- Minton, Balch & Company, New York, 1930.
- Description:
- The highly regarded survey partly underwritten by the Council for Research in the Social Sciences at Columbia, written by one of Franklin Roosevelt's Brain Trusters and most intimate advisers, long active in the reform of the courts
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, the spine dull; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-62411
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Kuhlman, Augustus Frederick (prep.)
- Title:
- A Guide to Material on Crime and Criminal Justice
- Publisher:
- H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1929.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Tan buckram, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90469
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Glaser, Daniel, et al.
- Title:
- The Violent Offender
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 39 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90115
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Kuhlhorn, Eckart and Bo Svensson
- Title:
- Crime Prevention
- Publisher:
- National Council for Crime Prevention, Stockholm, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit worn, but sound; 319 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90063
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, SWEDEN
- 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:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Caroli II Regis . . . Decimo Quarto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661 . . . And there continued . . . And thence Prorogued to the 18th of February then next following. Not in Wing. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- The rare complete record of the first, major legislation of the Restoration's Cavalier Parliament, including the Licensing of the Press Act (c.33), the Act of Uniformity (c.4), and the Act for Better Relief of the Poor (c.12); five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, clean and well preserved with generous margins and the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79476
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, freedom of press, criminal law, Religion, poor law
- Author:
- Tonry, Michael and Norval Morris
- Title:
- Crime and Justice, An Annual Review of Research. Volume 3
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981.
- Description:
- Seven essays, including Michael Ignatieff's "State, Civil Society, and Total Institutions: A Critique of Recent Social Histories of Punishment"
- Condition:
- Gray cloth, a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-90225
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Penology
- Author:
- Title:
- Central Criminal Court. Calendar of Prisoners, For the Session Commencing On Tuesday, the 8th day of January, 1924 [through 1970]. Eighteen Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed by Merser & Sons, Ltd. [imprint varies], London, 1924-70.
- Description:
- A rare, almost half-century run of Old Bailey prisoners' monthly calendars, an estimated 50,000 accused, providing their names, ages, occupations, and the crimes charged, described with specificity; in no source consulted, including RLIN & OCLC
- Condition:
- Blue buckram and unbound as issued, ex Law Society; quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-67483
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-68099
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Halleck, Seymour L.
- Title:
- The Mentally Disordered Offender
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 215 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30858
- Price:
- $ 12.50
- Category:
- insanity, criminal law
- 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:
- Astry, James
- Title:
- A General Charge to All Grand Juries, with Advice to those of Life and Death, Nisi Prius, &c. Collected and Publish'd For the ease of Justices of the Peace . . . To which is Prefix'd, A Discourse of the Antiquity, Power and Duty of Juries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Turner . . . and Thomas Emery [etc.], London, 1703.
- Description:
- First edition of Astry's uncommon charge and his only work, devoted exclusively to criminal law and the role of the jury, his exposition on the jury followed by what is essentially an elementary treatise on crime, from high treason to misdemeanors
- Condition:
- Original unlettered sheep, the spine chipped and strengthened with tape, a clean working copy, with the bookplate of Harold Hemsley; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79542
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, criminal law, juries, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno III & IIII. Edwardi Sexti. Actes made in the Session of this present parlament . . . the iiii daie of Nouembre, in the thirde yere of the reigne of our most dread Souuereigne Lorde Edward the vi [1549] [etc.]. S.T.C. 9430 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Rychard Grafton, London, 1553.
- Description:
- An early printing during a tumultuous year, Parliament enacting the first Riot Act [c.5], establishing a public militia [c.5], abolishing non-Church of England religious books and most images [c.10], and outlawing "phantasicall" prophecies [c.15]
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered, very light browning, else well preserved with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79223
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, law of slavery, military law, witchcraft
- Author:
- Farrington, David P. and Roger Tarling (eds.)
- Title:
- Prediction in Criminology
- Publisher:
- State University of New York Press, Albany, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-90365
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Cumming, Sir John
- Title:
- A Contribution Towards a Bibliography Dealing with Crime and Cognate Subjects. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Patterson Smith, Montclair, 1970.
- Description:
- Facsimile reissue of the 1935 edition of a work first published in 1914, covering a fifty year period, arranged by subject with cross-indexes by author, geography and subject, emphasising England and the Commonwealth
- Condition:
- Gray buckram, the rear board a bit bumped, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90420
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- General Deterrence, A Conference on Current Research and Standpoints
- Publisher:
- National Council for Crime Prevention, Stockholm, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 386 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90210
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- 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:
- Courts
- Publisher:
- Nat'l Advisory Commission on Crim. Justice Standards & Goals, Washington, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized printed wraps; 358 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30575
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXXI Reginae Elizabethae. At a Session of Parliament holden at Westminster. . . in the one and thirtieth yeere [1589] of our most gratious Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth . . . were enacted as followeth. S.T.C. 9488.5; Beale S304. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by the Deputies of Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1589.
- Description:
- The parliament enacting the 'Erection of Cottages Act' [c.7], requiring that any cottage built must have at least four acres of freehold or the equivalent, seeking to prevent overnight squatter construction, legislation not to be repealed until 1775
- Condition:
- Modern blind tooled 3/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and staining, else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79447
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- Acts, poor law, 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:
- Miller, John
- Title:
- An Inquiry into the Present State of the Statute and Criminal Law of England
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1822.
- Description:
- The rare work written by a Lincoln's Inn barrister, expanding upon his influential rebuttal of the Report from the Select Committee on Criminal Laws, amounting (in Radzinowicz's words) to what "may well be called the 'Counter-Report'"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rebacked, a trifle worn, but well-preserved; three copies in OCLC, none in North America
- Book No.:
- W-75970
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, criminal law, Acts
- Author:
- Bayne, Alexander
- Title:
- Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and sold by Gideon Crawfurd Bookseller [etc.], Edinburgh, 1748.
- Description:
- Second (and last) edition of the second legal treatise on Scots criminal law, written by Bayne for his students at the University of Edinburgh where he was the first occupant of the chair of Scots law; rare, ESTC locating three copies in this country
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, gilt, light browning, else a very good, crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-79116
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, 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:
- Walker, Marcia J. and Stanley L. Brodsky (eds.)
- Title:
- Sexual Assault, The Victim and the Rapist
- Publisher:
- Lexington Books, Lexington, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, the boards a bit warped, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90086
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Rape, criminal law, women's law
- Author:
- Morris, Norval
- Title:
- Madness and the Criminal Law
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54061
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, insanity
- Author:
- Title:
- Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1987. A National Crime Survey Report
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, oversized, worn but sound; 113 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90232
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Victimology
- Author:
- Schumacher, Mary
- Title:
- Violent Offending, A Report on Recent Trends in Violent Offending and Some Characteristics of the Violent Offender
- Publisher:
- A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, Wellington, 1971.
- Description:
- A report from the Justice Department of New Zealand
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, well-preserved; 62 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90120
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, NEW ZEALAND
- 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
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