Trials Tale, First Edition (12 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition - Nap (No Additional Printing Stated, Thus First). Signed By The Author On The Inside Of The Front Cover. Black Pictorial Wraps. Minor Wear Only. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($23.95 price intact). Published by Greenleaf Book, 2019. Octavo. Brown boards stamped in copper with yellow topstain. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 378 pages. ISBN: 9781626346550. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing (no additional printings listed). "A book for the entertainment and special instruction of the Catholic male and female servants of the United States." Worn-through spots to the spine ends and corners. The spine is slanted. Unmarked and in a sound binding with hinges intact. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. _____ Thorough background of the sorry conclusion of a miserable life._____ John Porteous, after a disreputable early life, was made a Captain of the Edinburgh city guard._____ Apparently his chief qualification for this post was the fact that he was a pathological bully and everyone in the city was terrified of him._____ In this position of power Porteous gave free rein to his less noble inclinations, further alienating the citizens._____ . _____ This all came to a head immediately after the hanging of a thief named Andrew Wilson in 1736._____ The populace favored Wilson and stones were thrown at the hangman and guard._____ Porteous fired his flintlock into the crowd and ordered his guard to do the same, killing or injuring about 20 spectators._____ The city council ordered him arrested and imprisoned._____ Later that year Porteous was tried and condemned to death._____ Some time later a mob broke into the prison and lynched him._____ ._____Included here are the transcripts of evidence from the trials of Wilson, Porteous, and William MacLauclane an accessory to the lynching. _____ "Playing at golf." p.xii. _____ Concludes with a brief discussion of the trial of Nicol Muschett for the murder of his wife. _____ ._____Lacks the frontispiece of the Edinburgh toll booth. _____ In antique marbled boards, with leather spine and corners._____ ._____The front cover is free, the rear tenuous, the entirety well-worn._____.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback, half-calf, marbled boards - boards detached. 19cm x 11cm. xxxvi, 344pp. 1st edition 1818. Previous owner's name to top of title page. A good reading copy. (r28).

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. viii - 243. A note on end paper purchased from Dr. Nora Liddy Selskar Antiques, Wexford May 2001. Original green cloth, gilt title on spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this informative work offering the legal background to Walter Scott's novel 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian', in which the death of John Porteous is discussed. The first edition of this work.An anonymously authored collection of trial reports representing the legal background to events in Sir Walter Scott's seventh novel, 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'. This was published the week following the first publication of that novel.The work relays the proceedings surrounding Scottish military officer Captain John Porteous, who played a major role in the Porteous Riots, which resulted in his death.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.Endpapers renewed. With bookseller's label to front pastedown, and pencil inscription to front free endpaper.It has been conjectured that the preface may be the work of Scott himself. Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Spine label laid down. Back strip lightly age toned, with bump to back strip tail, and light rubbing to joints. Bookseller's label to front pastedown, pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with handling marks and the odd spot to perimeters. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Colour pictorial boards, litho frontis; pp. 136. Heavily worn, bottom front right corner tatty and torn; paper dry; previous owner's name/date. A very rare volume in a right old state.

Hardcover. First edition. 344 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Included herein: trial of Andrew Wilson, William Hall, and George Robertson, before the High Court of Justiciary.; Authentic extract of the proceedings in the trial of Captain John Porteous.; Proceedings in the trial of William Maclauchlane.; Proceedings in the trial of Nicol Muschett. A riot erupted after the hanging of Wilson. The authorities authorized Porteus to attempt to disperse the mob, but in the confusion and violence ten six people were shot by the guards under command of Porteus. A trial found him guilty, subsequently an enraged mob attacked Tolbooth prison, dragged him from his cell and lynched him. Text clean and bright, small, faint stamp on title, engraved frontispiece of Tolbooth prison. Backstrip sunned. Bound by Lauriat. Three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine.

First edition. In three volumes. [4], 328; [4], 315, [1]; [4], 314pp. With half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, heraldic crests of Anglo-Irish army officer Charles William Vane, third Marquess of Londonderry to head of spines. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional light spotting, loss to lower margin of leaf F3, Vol. II The sole British edition of Mary Ann Kelty's (1789-1873) third published triple decker sentimental novel. In 1821 Kelty published anonymously The Favourite of Nature, her first and most successful literary effort. It was favourably reviewed, praised as 'a tale which no mother need be afraid to place in the hands of her daughter' (Monthly Magazine, pp. 269-70). Harriet Martineau called it 'the first successful religious novel'. Further forays into the genre appeared with some frequency (Osmond (1823), The Story of Isabel (1826)), though they failed to excite the literary imagination of the public, and by 1827 Kelty renounced her novelistic career, turning, thanks to the overbearing influence of evangelical preacher Charles Simeon, to producing religious tracts. Over the last three decades of her life she issued a plethora of devotional reflections on spirituality in domestic life and two affecting autobiographical testimonies, Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling (1852) and The Solace of a Solitaire (1869). Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 3 volume set, 7 inches tall. An elegant Georgian half calf with gilt bands and simple blind tooled panels. Pink speckled edges. With the heraldic crest of Vane Londonderry in the top panel. From the library of Charles William Vane (formerly Stewart), third Marquess of Londonderry. Vane served with distinction throughout the Peninsula War. His dashing and dandified portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence is at the National Portrait Gallery. He amassed magnificent libraries in his various Country Houses. A scarce and elegant set of this first edition triple decker.

Hard Cover. First printing. Original three-quarter calf, marble boards. Raised bands, embossed spine compartments tooled in gilt. LIGHT RUBBING AND EDGEWEAR, OVERALL VERY GOOD+ OR BETTER WITH CLEAN, TIGHT TEXT AND FRONTISPIECE ENGRAVING OF THE TOLLBOOTH OF EDINBURGH. FRONT HINGE STARTING. BOOKPLATES FROM HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON (ARMORIALLY ENGRAVED), ANNE & F.G. REINER, AND WILLIAM ROBERTO. A NICE COPY.