Crime--Trials and Punishment | Two Works, 1779-1801

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Crime, Trials, and Punishment

Two works: 

(i) Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces, Being Select Trials at Doctors Commons for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, &c. London: printed for S. Bladon, 1779-1780. 6 volumes (of 7), 8vo (199 x 121mm.), 33 engraved plates with an additional 6 coloured engraved frontispieces, 19th century marbled calf gilt, re-backed retaining the original spine, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, vol 2. plate following Charles Daly against Anastatia Daly has a very small hole, vol. 3 Jonathan Collet against Anne Charlotte Collet pp.61 margin has been extended, spines rubbed

(ii) [George Henry Mason]. The Punishments of China, London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1801. 4to (347 x 260mm.), title-page watermarked 1796, text in English and French, 22 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates, gilt edges, brown endpapers, contemporary straight grained morocco gilt, binding rubbed, upper hinge weak

LITERATURE:

(i) ESTC T106050