Crime & Punishment. Scotland, a sammelband of two titles...

Hammer

£110

Crime & Punishment. Scotland, a sammelband of two titles: The Trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie For the Crimes of Incest and Murder [...], first edition, Edinburgh: Auld and Smellie; et al., 1765, lacking half-tile, pp: iv, 5-200, repaired title-page, [& bound with] Report of the Trial of Mrs. Gilmour, before the Supreme Court of Justiciary, on the Charge of Poisoning her Husband, with a Brief Sketch of her Life, Glasgow: W.C. Pattison, 1844, leaves trimmed to text, 20th century quarter-morocco over 18th c marbled paper boards, 8vo, The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer, for Poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley [...], Illustrated and Unabridged Edition, London: Ward and Lock, 1856, folding frontispiece torn, original publisher's cloth, chipped and worn, 8vo, Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer [...], London: Ward and Lock, 1856, frontispiece, double-page diary lithograph, in-text illustrations, 20th c grey papered boards, 8vo, A Complete Report of the Trial of Dr E.W. Pritchard, for the Alleged Poisoning of his Wife and Mother-in-LAw [...], Edinburgh: William Kay, 1865, frontispiece, early 20th c cloth, Bradford Public Library's copy, neat but for a few preliminary stamps, 8vo, [&] Dueling, The Trial of James Thomas Earl of Cardigan before The Right Honourable The House of Peers, [...] for Felony [...], London: Printed for William Brodie Gurney, et al., 1841, original publisher's cloth, sunned and chipped, 8vo, (5)

Provenance: 5th: Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), judge and Justice of the King's Bench, ffep inscribed in MS: J.T. Coleridge/Montague Place/April 1841.