"Cut Out for a Sawyer but Made Up a Lawyer" [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Beware! Important Caution. Beware of a Pair of Bipeds, That Have Lately Escaped, The One from Jail, The Other "Cut out for a Sawyer but Made Up a Lawyer," From the Weddington Lane-Menagerie, And are Now Haunting..... More
One of the Most Appalling Examples of the Sadistic Abuse of a Minor [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. [Child Abuse]. A Copy of Verses, on the Trial & Conviction of Mr. & Mrs. Sloane, for the Cruel Treatment of their (Servant Girl,) Jane Wilbred. [London?: Printed for P.C., 1851]. 9" x 7"..... More
"I Would Fork Out a Trifle to Know, Sir, Why Crime Should Increase in Our Land" [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. [Criminals]. John Bull, Can You Wonder At Crime! London: W.S. Fortey, Steam Printer and Publisher, [c. 1860]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" broadside, woodcut vignette at head above large headline, main text printed..... More
"Kind Folks You See, Our Effigy, Designed for Guy Fawkes; Who With Base Mind, Was Once Inclin'd to Give King James Hard Knocks" [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Guy Fawkes Day. A New Guy Fawkes Speech. [London]: E. Billing, 186, Bermondsey Street, [c.1840]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" broadside. Six-stanza verse text within woodcut..... More
Parliament Demands a Religious Loyalty Oath from the Leaders of the Cinque Ports [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. [Loyalty Oaths]. Die Veneris 30 Julii. 1641. Resolved upon the Question. That this House Doth Conceive that the Protestation Made by Them, is Fit to be Taken by Every Person that is Well Affected..... More
Land for Sale in Somerset [Broadside]. [Land Auction]. [Great Britain]. Batcombe, Somerset. Freehold Lands, To be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Wainwright, At the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Batcombe, On Thursday the 22nd. Day of July, 1830. Shepton-Mallet: Wason & Foxwell, [1830]. 17-3/4" x 11" broadside. Text in single column..... More
"Valuable Freehold Lands" [Broadside]. [Land Auction]. [Great Britain]. Batcombe, Somerset, Butleigh and Babcary. Valuable Freehold Lands. To be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Wainwright, On Monday, The 28th Day of April, 1834, At the George Inn, In Shepton-Mallet, At 3 O'Clock in the Afternoon. Shepton-Mallet: Cary, Printer, [1834]. 19-1/4" x...... More
A Rare Unrecorded Murder Broadside [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. The Walworth Tragedy. London: Published at Taylor's Song Mart, Brick Lane, Near the Railway Arch. Hawkers and the Trade Supplied, [c. 1840?]. 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" verse broadside mounted on backing paper, text in two columns within woodcut typographical border. Light toning..... More
"On Wicked Ways Her Heart Was Bent" [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. A Wonderful Judgment on a Cruel Daughter, Who Was Struck Apparently Dead, While in the Act of Murdering Her Tender Mother, Aged 73 years, &c. London: Evans, Printer, Long-Lane, May, 1821. 12-1/2" x 8" broadside, text, printed within ornamental..... More
The First Extensive Study of the Subject [Corporations]. [Great Britain]. The Law of Corporations: Containing the Laws and Customs of All the Corporations and Inferior Courts of Record in England. Treating of the Essentials of, And Incidents to, A Corporation. Of Mayors, Bailiffs, Serjeants, &c. And Their Executing Process. Conusance..... More
Attributed to Matthew Bacon, Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert and Henry Pooley A Gentleman of the Middle Temple. A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c. With Several Cases Never Before Published, Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References..... More
"An Exhibition of Elizabethan Habits, Manners, And Peculiarities" [Court of Chancery]. [Great Britain]. The Practice of the High Court of Chancery. With the Nature of the Several Offices Belonging to that Court. And the Reports of Many Cases Wherein Relief Hath Been There Had, And Where Denied. London: printed by..... More
The Fates of 79 Prisoners in Taunton, Somerset on October 14, 1833 [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. A Calendar of the Prisoners for the Michaelmas Season, To be Holden at the Castle, Taunton, On Monday, The 14th Day of October, 1833. [drop head title]. Yeoville: Porter, Printer, [1833]. [12] pp. Quarto (12-1/2"..... More
The Fates of 118 Prisoners in Bridgwater, Somerset on June 29, 1835 [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. A Calendar of the Prisoners for the Midsummer Sessions, To be Holden at the Town of Bridgwater, On Monday, The 29th Day of June, 1835. [drop head title]. Yeoville: Porter, Printer, [1835]. [16] pp. Quarto..... More
"Commonly Called Old Patch" [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. Price, Charles [1723-1786]. Memoirs of a Social Monster; Or the History of Charles Price, Otherwise Boilingbroke, Otherwise Johnson, Otherwise Parks, Otherwise Wigmore, Otherwise Brank, Otherwise Wilmott, Otherwise Williams, Otherwise Schutz, Otherwise Powel, &c. &c. &c. And commonly called Old Patch. Containing an Accurate..... More
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James I Prohibits Dueling [Dueling]. [Great Britain]. James I [1566-1625], King of England. A Publication of His Ma[jes]ties Edict, And Severe Censure Against Private Combats and Combatants; Whether Within his Highnesse Dominions, Or Without; With their Seconds, Accomplices, And Adhaerents: Straitly Charging All Officers, And Other his Ma[jes]ties Subiects, To..... More
Scarce Eighteenth-Century English Treatise on Election Law [Election Law]. [Great Britain]. The Law of Elections: Being an Abstract of All the Statutes Now in Force Relating to the Election of Members to Serve in the House of Commons: In Three Sections, Viz. The Duties &c. of the Electors, The Elected..... More
Acts and Cases Concerning Elections to Parliament [Elections]. [Great Britain]. Orders, Resolutions, and Determinations of the Honourable House of Commons, On Controverted Elections and Returns: Determining the Qualifications of Candidates and Voters; The Rights of Election for the Several Cities and Boroughs; The Nature of Evidence Proper on the Hearing;..... More
[Fisheries]. [Great Britain]. [Collection of Twelve Parliamentary Acts Dealing with Fisheries]. Edinburgh: Printed by Sir D. Hunter [and other Edinburgh printers], 1809-1860. Various paginations. 12mo. (6" x 4"). Contemporary plain wrappers, light soiling and shelfwear, internally clean. $75. More
[Great Britain]. [Marriage]. [The British Royal Family]. An Appeal to The Legislature, for the Repeal of the Act Regulating the Marriage of the Royal Family. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1814. [2] 477-487 pp. Disbound. $25. More
A Compact Gentleman's Law Library [Great Britain]. A Compendious Library of the Law: Necessary for Persons of All Degrees and Professions. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing, I. The Laws Relating to Parish-Officers, Viz. Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Scavengers, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. II. The Laws Relating..... More
An Abridged Edition of English Statutes from Magna Carta to 1737 [Great Britain]. An Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force and Use, From Magna Charta, 9 H. 3. To the Beginning of the Reign of King George. In Four Volumes. London: Printed by His Majesty's Printers, 1730. Four..... More
An Ambitious and Sophisticated English Layman's Guide from 1791 [Great Britain]. A Law Grammar: Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. Containing Rudiments and Illustrations of 1. The Laws of Nature, 2. The Law of God, 3. The Law of Nations, 4. The Law Politic, 5..... More
An Ambitious and Sophisticated English Layman's Guide from 1791 [Great Britain]. A Law Grammar: Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. Containing Rudiments and Illustrations of 1. The Laws of Nature, 2. The Law of God, 3. The Law of Nations, 4. The Law Politic, 5..... More
An Ambitious and Sophisticated English Layman's Guide from 1791 [Great Britain]. A Law Grammar: Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. Containing Rudiments and Illustrations of 1. The Laws of Nature, 2. The Law of God, 3. The Law of Nations, 4. The Law Politic, 5..... More