J. 159
State trials.
6 vols.
fol.--
State tracts
[trials
] 1715-1723.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 239, no. 241 as above.
State Trials.
A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and proceedings upon impeachments for High Treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours;
from the reign of King Henry the Fourth, to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. In
four volumes. With an exact alphabetical table to the whole.
London: Printed for
Timothy Goodwin;
John Walthoe;
Benj. Tooke;
John Darby;
Jacob Tonson; and
John Walthoe, Jun.,
m. dcc. xix
.--
A Complete Collection of State-Trials . . . from the reign of King Richard II. to the end of the reign of King George I. The
fifth [-sixth] volume. Being a Supplement to the four volumes of the first edition.
London: Printed in the year
m. dcc. xxx
. [1719-1730]
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First Edition. Together 6 vol. Folio. Titles printed in red and black, subscribers’ names at the beginning of vol. I, printed in
double columns. The collation of vol. I-IV is given in vol. I.
Marvin, page 660.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 228, 3.
Calf, repaired and rebacked with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers in vol.
I and II [those for no. 241 in vol. III-VI]. Initialled by Jefferson in vol. III-VI, not in vol. I and II. On the fly-leaf of vol. V is written:
Peyton Randolph Esq
r. Attorney Generall of Virginia
.
The first four volumes were edited by Thomas Salmon, 1679-1767, English author and traveller. Volumes V and VI were edited by Sollom Emlyn, 1697-1754, and accompanied the four volumes of Salmon’s work reissued by Emlyn in 1730.
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J. 160
State trials.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 240, as above.
State Trials.
A Collection of Proceedings and Trials against State Prisoners; as well where they have had the benefit of a legal trial,
as where they have been cut off by arbitrary sentences, from the Norman Conquest to this present Time . . . Being a work which
gives great light into many obscure and controverted points in English History. Compiled by the editor of the four first volumes
of State-Trials in folio.
London: Printed for
J. Wilcox [by
C. Jephson],
1741.
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Folio. 312 leaves, collates in twos, double columns, publisher’s advertisement at the end, printer’s imprint on the last leaf,
and with his device at the end of the Preface.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and
T. On the fly-leaf is written:
The Gift of Thomas Atchison to J Wayles July 16
th 1754
.
From the library of J. Wayles.
Edited by Thomas Salmon.
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Laud’s trial by Prynne.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 77. no. 242, as above.
PRYNNE,
William.
Canterburies Doome. Or the first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of
William Lavd late Arch-Bishop
