Local Interest. [Infanticide and Crime & Punishment] A G...

Hammer

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Local Interest. [Infanticide and Crime & Punishment] A Genuine Account of the Life and Trial of William Andrew Horne, Esq; Of Butterley-Hall, in the County of Derby; Who was convicted at Nottingham Assizes, August 10, 1759, for the Murder of a Child in the Year 1724, and executed there on the 11th Decmber, 1759. To which is prefixed, A particular Detail of all Circumstances tending to the Discovery of his long conceal'd Murder., second edition, Nottingham: Printed by S. Creswell, in the Exchange, 1759, 28pp, further bound with an uncalled for engraved frontispiece and [4]pp account of the crime, all inlaid to size, occasional loss of leaf Arabic numbering, double-line borders ruled in pen and ink, some toning and lightly soiled margins in places, loosely-inserted compliments slip: Messrs. Thurgood, Martin & Eve, Lonsdale Chambers, 27 Chancery Lane, London W.C.2., 20th c marbled papered boards, all edges gilt, 8vo now inlaid to folio (40.1 x 27.6cm)