Book #73979
Item #73979 Trial of R Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker. Trial, Richard Patch, Defendant.
Trial of R Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker...
Trial of R Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker...
Trial of R Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker...

Trial of R Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker...

"Not a Soul We Believe Can Lament his Fate" [Trial]. Patch, Richard, Defendant [c.1770-1806]. Trial of R. Patch, For the Murder of Isaac Blight, Ship-Breaker of Rotherhithe, In the County of Surry. Tried at Horsemonger-Lane, In the Borough of Southwark, Before the Lord Chief Baron Sir Archibald Mac Donald, And a Respectable Jury of the County of Surry. Guilty-Death. London: Printed by Dewick and Clarke for T. Hughes and Crosby & Co., 1806. 34, [2] pp. With a final advertisement leaf. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Light toning, occasional light soiling to edges. Housed in lightly rubbed 8" x 5" three-quarter morocco folder and plain slipcase. $350. * First edition. Patch, the eldest son of a smuggler, had been forced to mortgage his Exeter farm and subsequently fled to London in order to dodge his creditors. While there, he met Blight, a ship-breaker, who proposed that he become a partner in the business. Patch agreed, but lacked the money to pay for his share and killed Blight instead. Despite many attempts to conceal the crime, he was convicted on strong circumstantial evidence in 1806. A second edition of our account appeared later in 1806 with additional material and a frontispiece. It is unclear whether our first edition was issued with a frontispiece, though the copy at the Library of Congress has one. No records note the final advertisement leaf present in our copy. OCLC and Library Hub locate 3 copies of the first edition worldwide (Library of Congress, University of Leeds, Bishopsgate Institute).

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