A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer.

Oxford, 1762. First edition. The Aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising [Foster, Sir Michael (1689-1763)]. A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal [sic] Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry, And of Other Crown Cases. To Which are Added Discourses upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. Sold by M. Withers in Fleetstreet and T. Osborne in Gray's Inn, London; and by D. Prince at Oxford, 1762. [ii], viii, 412, [20] pp. Errata slip lacking. Preface signed "M. Foster." Folio (12" x 7-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, tabs added to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing and some scuffing and faint dampstaining to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, boards separated but secured by cords (front board by single cord only), spine ends partially abraded, ends of joints and board edges lightly varnished in places, corners bumped, owner signatures (of William Brown, October 26, 1844 and Craig Moffat) to front endleaves, biographies of John Dickinson [1732-1808] and Foster tipped onto front free endpaper, which is adhered to following endleaf, 8" x 5" sheet of ruled paper with manuscript biography of Dickinson tipped onto verso of front endleaf opposite title page with cellotape. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, brief annotation to p. 311, owner signature of a John Dickinson to head of title page. $300. * First edition, one of two issues from 1762. According to Holdsworth this is the "most remarkable and most scholarly of all the reports" of the eighteenth century. It remains an authoritative work. The rebels mentioned in Foster's title were prominent participants in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The discourses are "High Treason," "Of Homicide," "Of Accomplices In High Treason and Other Capital Offenses" and "Observations on Some Passages in The Writings of Lord Chief Justice Hale" (i.e. his History of the Pleas of the Crown). We do not believe that the owner signature on the title page is that of the American founding father John Dickinson [1732-1808]. Holdsworth, History of English Law 12:135. English Short Title Catalogue T145811.…