1783-1812 Public Letters, Addresses and Defences Regarding the Law

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

All first editions. 

Signed to pp.11 to ‘Surry Affair’ by the author.

A collection of six very scarce public letters on the law, bound into one volume.

This work contains;

 ‘A Surry Affair’ [1800], written anonymously by Robert Dickenson, in which Dickenson defends his actions at a hunt against the accusations of Mr. Allen. 

‘’Mr Trist’s Statement to the Public’ [1812], being a letter to the public from a Mr Trist defending himself against the accusations that he was involved in the 1812 race horse poisoning. In this defence, Trist discusses the testimony of Cecil Bishop, where he named the author, alongside Daniel Dawson who was later convicted and executed for the crime. 

‘A Letter to William Garrow, Esq. In Which the Conduct of Counsel in the Cross-Examination of Witnesses and Commenting on Their Testimony, is Fully Discussed, and the Licentiousness of the Bar Exposed’ by Thomas Hague, [1808]. In this work, Hague expresses his displeasure in the conduct that the counsel showed when doing their cross-examination of witnesses, addressing the letter to Mr William Garrow, a noted English barrister and judge known for pioneering the phrase’ presumed innocent until proven guilty’. 

Another letter to Mr William Garrow titled ‘A Letter to William Garrow, Esq, on the Subject of His Liberal Behaviour to the Author on the Trial of a Cause (Ford Against Pedder, and Others,) At the Lent Assizes, 1796, Held at Kingston, in the County of Sussex with an Apology for Its Publication to Sir Beaumont Hotham, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty’s Exchequer.’ by Matthew Concanen, c1796. 

‘To Mr. Peckham, One of His Majesty’s Counsel of the Court of King's-Bench, Learned in the Law.’ Anonymous, c1783. This work is addressed to Mr Harry Peckham, who was a judge and King's Counsel (a senior lawyer appointed by the Monarch). 

‘Mr King’s Apology; or a Reply to his Calumniators’ by John Banker King, 1798. 

Several works undated, dated by copied held institutionally.