Collection of the Most Interesting and Remarkable Trials:. Particularly of those People who have Forfeited their Lives to the Injured Laws of their Country. In which the most remarkable of the State Trials will be Included, with the Defence and Behaviour of the Criminals, before and after Condemnation. Intended not only to point out the Crimes of the Great, which are at present but little farther known than their own Families but also those of Inferior Criminals, who are only handed down as Examples to Posterity [Volume 1 Only].
London: R. Snagg, 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. A well documented collection of approximately one hundred trials across the two volumes, spanning three centuries with an apparent focus on high treason, murder, buggery, forgery, impotence(?!?), etc. Defendants include Guy Fawkes, Thomas Moore, William Pen, Walter Raleigh, etc.19th century bookplate of John.....
Price: $650.00