THE JESUIT TREASON TRIALS, 1679Biblio.com
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1776359213Printed T. Wright Essex Street Strand; and Sold by G. Kearsley No 46 near Serjeant's Inn Fleet Street London London 1776. Fourth Edition. Unbound Pages. Very Good Condition. A series of major prosecutions targets leading Jesuits and Catholic laymen Whitebread Harcourt Fenwick Langhorn and later Wakeman with three Benedictine monks accused of conspiring to kill the King. These trials form the core of the Popish Plot prosecutions driven by informer testimony and political panic. Their outcomes chart the rise and eventual erosion of belief in the Plot. 67 PAGES printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice authority and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible some pages display watermarks and the paper varies subtly in thickness all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Printed T. Wright, Essex Street, Strand; and Sold by G. Kearsley, No 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, London unknown
17207730London: s.n. 1720. 8vo pp. 28. Bound after: Earbery Matthias The Second Part of the Advantages That have Accrued to England by the Succession in the Illustrious House of Hanover. London: Printed in the Year 1721. 8vo pp. 38. And: Religion The Causes Of the Decay of Presbytery in Scotland. In Answer to a Letter from a Clergy-Man of that Perswasion. Edinburgh: Printed in the Year 1713. 3 pamphlets bound together in 20th-century yellow-glazed textured paper boards backed in paler glazed paper spine and front board lettered in ink. Some scattered toning and soiling. Boards a little marked. Folded typewritten fragment of a letter dated 10.3.63 loosely inserted. A scarce pamphlet advocating an armed citizenry against the tyranny of the state in rather florid prose bound with two further anonymous pamphlets with broadly anti-Hanovarian sentiment. The Appeal is recorded in just 5 locations by ESTC: BL NLS and Oxford in the UK and Folger and California in North America. The letter fragment from a previous owner included describes its publication as ‘unquestionably an act of high treason’ adding ‘but I suppose the author was never discovered’. Certainly none of the listed holdings venture an attribution and the printing itself is anonymous with no tell-tale printers’ devices or typographical oddities. Earbery was a non-juring clergyman who was forced to flee to France to avoid arrest when a book of his critical of the monarchy was seized by the government in 1717 and was twice arrested for seditious libel in the decades following; the title of his pamphlet here can be considered ironical. The third pamphlet here is a little earlier and was also published with a London imprint in the same year. ‘This pamphlet was published before the elections of 1713; it tends to confuse more than to clarify matters in Scotland. Written from an Episcopalian point of view but from an English as opposed to a Scottish angle it was a complicated review of the distant and recent political past of Scotland with considerable attention to religious matters’ McLeod & McLeod Anglo-Scottish Tracts 1979. ESTC T108497; T172369; T84150; McLeod & McLeod 73. [s.n.] hardcover
1716WRCLIT62350London: Printed by H. Meere for A. Bettesworth et al 1716. Two volumes. 6330;4320pp. 12mo. Contemporary paneled calf and paneled sheep not uniform. Early ink initials in corner of each title margin spine extremities worn with slight cracking to a couple joints one label wanting; internally slightly tanned but crisp and very good. First and only edition it would appear of this compilation for popular reading as evidenced by the emphasis placed on the accounts of final words and executions and modes for same rather than on legal subtleties. The imprint advertises copies in both sheep and calf available at different prices and it would appear the early owner opted for the cheaper route for the second volume. ESTC N6760. Printed by H. Meere, for A. Bettesworth [et al] unknown books
1709153209London: printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd; printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty 1709. Stamped with Queen Anne's arms First edition of this collection of parliamentary acts regarding treason suitably bound in a loyalist trade binding with the gilt arms of Queen Anne emblazoned on the covers. Duodecimo 152 x 86 mm. Contemporary black morocco spine lettered in gilt with foliate ornaments in compartments covers with concentric gilt panelling enclosing the gilt arms of Queen Anne marbled endpapers gilt edges. Colour skilfully retouched at extremities binding fresh light browning towards beginning and end; an excellent copy. ESTC T136807. unknown
