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Published by London: Printed for G G. and J. Robinson., 1795., 1795
Seller: Spike Hughes Rare Books ABA, Innerleithen, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. x, 377, [1], cont. calf, red leather title label, binding rubbed, pieces scraped from rear joint and fore-margin of rear board, small chip at top and foot of spine. [ESTC T117117].
Published by London: Printed For G.G. And J.Robinson, 1795., 1795
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
8vo. pp. x, 377. contemporary sheep (very worn, covers off, spine cracked, paper lightly embrowned). bookplate of John Scott, Chester-Town, 1795. First Edition. Plowden s Short History contains a sweeping exposé of the government s erosion of the principle of trial by jury in the 1794 State Trials of the English Jacobins. Of the events, Plowden writes: " the Law Officers and Ministers of the Crown can vauntingly arraign three repeated Verdicts of different Juries upon the same question, deny the acquittal of prisoners to be proof of their innocence it becomes requisite to caution my countrymen against affixing guilt to such as are cleared of it by the verdict of their peers." (Preface).