Tichborne Case (7 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Tear to fore-edge of three leaves, pp 107-112, the odd spot. Orig. printed yellow paper wrappers; tear with sl. loss to lower corner of front wrapper, fore-edge of front wrapper a little torn, sl. wear to spine. W.H. Smith embossed stamp. A good-plus copy. Not in BL; Southampton only on Copac; OCLC adds copies at the universities of Amsterdam, Minnesota and Melbourne. Price one shilling. The title printed on the front cover is The "Times" Summary of the Lord Chief Justice's Summing-Up of the Great Tichborne Trial. A concise and complete history of the whole trial.

Orig. pink printed wrappers. v.g. The first case of the 'Tichborne Claimant' in which Arthur Orton attempted to evict Colonel Lushington from Tichborne Park. Orton's case collapsed, he was charged with perjury and committed to Newgate.

Half title. contemp. half black roan; a little rubbed. Sotheran bookseller's ticket. Text in two columns.

Photo. port. laid on card; corners clipped & imprint address trimmed through & lower margin of card. 10 x 6.2cm. v.g. A photograph of the rotund Arthur Orton, smoking a cigar and sat by a table adorned with three books. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Two photographic portraits, both with caption titles printed in green. Approx. 10 x 6.5cm. v.g. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

12 vols folio, of the full transcript of the 188-day trial: I. Speech of Mr. Hawkins, Counsel for the Prosecution, pp.1-306; II-V: Witnesses for the Prosecution, pp.1-2,520 to the end of the 57th day; [without: Days 58-89; VI-VIII, Witnesses for the Defence, to the end of 122nd day]; IX, Witnesses for the Defence and Evidence in Reply to the end of the 145th day; [without: Days 146-158]; X: Mr Hawkins' Reply, to the end of the 168th day; XI & XII, the Charge of the Lord Chief Justice (Summing up and Verdict) to the end of the 188th and final day. Half dark blue calf, a little rubbed, but all vols good and sound. There appear to be no complete transcripts of the Tichborne Case in the British Isles. BL has 9 vols, but not the 2 vols of 'The Charge'; TCD has 6 vols. The National Archive has 23 vols (presumably each vol. containing less than here) numbered 1-14; 1-6; 11-13. There are three locations in the USA for 14 vol. sets, presumably complete: Temple Law Library, Philadelphia; Pritzker Legal Research Center; and the Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington. One of the longest and most sensational cases of the 19thC which caught the public imagination. Despite the guilty verdict on the two charges of perjury, public opinion backed the Claimant, Arthur Orton, and his Counsel, Dr. Edward Kenealy. The latter was vilified by the legal establishment, lost his status as Queen's Counsel and was disbarred. Orton served ten years of his 14-year sentence and was released in 1884, dying in 1898. He was given a pauper's burial.