Crime. Medical Jurisprudence, Abortion and the Slave Trade: ...

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Crime. Medical Jurisprudence, Abortion and the Slave Trade: Jones (William, Junior), The Trial of Charles Angus, Esq. on an Indictment for The Wilful Murder of Margaret Burns, at the Assizes Held at Lancaster [...]; A Vindication of the Opinions Delivered [...]; [with] Remarks on a Late Publication, Entitled "A Vindication of the Opinions Delivered [...]", three parts issued together as per, first editions, Liverpool: Printed for William Jones, Sold by G. Alderson et al, 1808, separate title-pages, pagination and register, contemporary quarter-sheep over marbled boards, rubbed and chipped, upper-cover just holding, uncut, 8vo; Jones (George Henry), Account of the Murder of the Late William Weare, of Lyon's Inn, London [...], and The Execution of John Thurtell, at Hertford [...], first edition, London: Printed by J. Nichols and Son, for Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824, 4 full-page and 2 folding lithographed plates &/or plans, contemporary maroon roan gilt over marbled boards, speckled edges, 8vo; Scotland: Glasgow Poisoning Case: Unabridged Report [...], first edition, London: George Vickers, 1857, folding frontispiece of the trial, 4 full-page & 2 folding plates, some staining, original publisher's printed paper wrapper to upper-cover only, 12mo; Jacobites: The Massacre of Glenco (sic, Glencoe) [...], third edition, London: J. Johnson, n.d. [?1745], repaired title, later marbled boards, uncut, 8vo; and two other volumes of legal proceedings, constitutional and tort law, comprising Shee (William, of Lincoln's Inn), Reflections on the Trial of the Prince de Polignac and his Colleagues, presentation copy from the author to John Gage of Lincoln's Inn: tipped-in 2pp ALS and inscribed half-title, first edition, London: Hatchard and Son, 1836, original publisher's mauve cloth boards, split spine taped, uncut, 8vo; and a Victorian sammelband of two tracts and one newspaper narrative, Bagot v. Bagot, 1878, Albert Grant's Trial/Twycross v. Grant and others, [1877], and Brook v. Brook, 1858, contemporaneous tan half-calf over marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces, 8vo, (6) 

Provenance: 1st: From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier, benefactors to the V&A; their mid-20th c book label. 2nd: Robert Saundby, FRCP (1849-1918); his armorial bookplate, dated 1900.