Crime & Punishment. [Carter (Samuel)], The Law of Execut...

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Crime & Punishment. [Carter (Samuel)], The Law of Executions, first edition, London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs; for Robert Battersby, 1706, black-ruled title-page, occasional Gothic Black Letter, [xvi], 323, [1] (blank), [18] (index), [2] (publisher's advert), toned, broad lower-margin unevenly cropped, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, now split with some rubbed losses, the Law Library of Los Angeles County's copy, title and two text leaves with their perforated stamp, pastedown with their labels and endpapers with their ink stamp, 8vo, [provincial printing] The Genuine Account of the Trial of Eugene Aram, For the Murder of Daniel Clark, Late of Knaresborough, in the County of York [...], third edition, York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington, Newcastle upon Tyne: Re-printed by Order for the Proprietor, 1759, [ii], 42pp, foxed, occasional chipped or uneven edges, but without any loss of text, with [7]pp of later manuscript and periodical clippings, c. 1830, early 19th c calf over papered boards, perished and disbound, verso of title with manuscript ownership inscription: J. Campbell Burroughs/Southampton, title-page verso and last leaf (i.e. F1) with small, ?private Selbourne Library stamps, 8vo, [provincial printing] Paul (Sir George Onesiphorus), Proceedings of the Grand Juries, Magistrates, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the County of Gloucester, on Designing & Executing a General Reform in the Construction and Regulation of the Prisons of the Said County, third edition, Gloucester: Printed by D. Walker, et al., 1808, [iii]-viii, [9]-87, lacking half-title, in-keeping 20th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, title lower-margin with former library stamp, not affecting letters, 8vo, [&] Townsend (William C), Modern State Trials, volume I only, 1850, 20th c morocco over cloth, some wear, etc., 8vo, (4)

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Auction Date: 6th Feb 2024 at 10am

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