A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparallell'd Murders...
"There Never Was Such a Horrible Scene of Villainy" A Gentleman at Chichester. A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparallell'd Murders Committed on the Bodies of Mr. William Galley, A Custom-House Officer in the Port of Southampton: And Mr. Daniel Chater, A Shoemaker, Of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Together with an Account of the Trials of the Seven Bloody Criminals, At Chichester, By Virtue of a Special Commission, On the 16th, 17th, And 18th of January, 1748: By which it Appears, There Never Was Such a Horrible Scene of Villainy Ever Heard of, Or Known Before. With a Particular Account of Their Behaviour at Their Trials, As Also While Under Confinement at Chichester, Both Before, At, And After Sentence of Death was Passed Upon Them: Together with Their Lives, Confessions, Behaviour, And Last Dying Words at the Place of Execution, On Thursday January 19, The Day After They Receiv'd Sentence of Death. London: Printed for the Proprietor R. Walker, 1749. vi, 267, [5] pp. With seven full page woodcut illustrations; without the red and black title page recorded in some copies. Octavo (6-1/4" x 4"). Contemporary or near-contemporary calf, gilt fillets and rules to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, gilt tooling to outer and inner board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Light rubbing to boards and extremities, front board nearly detached, light wear to spine ends, chip to head of spine, joints cracked, corners just bumped and very lightly worn, hinges starting, early bookplate (of Walter Adams) to front pastedown and ms. note in an early hand to front endleaf. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, title page and two plates affected by trimming and carefully mended, minor loss to text and images, legibility affected on title page only, flaw to text block of leaves Ff1-2 (219-222), mended carefully on Ff1, with minor loss to text and no loss to legibility. An appealing copy of a rare title. $2,500. * First edition. The Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious group of smugglers based in southeast England. Galley, a customs officer, arrested Chater, a gang member, in 1748 and turned him into an informer. Both men were then captured by other members of the Hawkhurst gang and savagely murdered; Galley was beaten, tied to his horse and mutilated, while Chater was tortured and stoned to d.
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