The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, And Others, For High Treason...
An Account of the Cato Street Conspiracy Trial with Nine Plates [Trials]. [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1774-1820], Primary Defendant. The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, And Others, For High Treason, At the Old Bailey Sessions-House, Commencing on Saturday, The 15th, And Ending on Thursday, the 27th of April, 1820. Taken in Short Hand, According to the Method Invented by John Byrom, Esq. F.R.S. Illustrated by Back and Front Views of the Premises in Cato Street, Edgeware Road, London; And by Several Original Portraits of the Principal Conspirators and Witnesses Connected with the Proceedings. With an Appendix Containing Circumstantial Details of the Execution and Decapitation of Thistlewood, Tidd, Ings, Davidson, And Brunt. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neeley, & Johns, Paternoster-Row, And J. Asperne, Cornhill, 1820. iv, 200 pp. 9 plates. Complete. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Later three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards, gilt rules to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, top-edge gilt, ribbon marker, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and fading to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to plates and sections of text. An attractive copy. $450. * Led by Arthur Thistlewood, the event known as the Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all of the ministers and prime minister of King George IV in 1820. Motivated in part by the economic depression of the period, the conspirators wished to avenge earlier protests suppressed by the state, such as the Paterloo Massacre. The conspirator's goal was to overthrow the government and initiate a revolution similar to the French Revolution. Betrayed by one of the co-conspirators, Thistlewood and four others were captured, tried and executed. There are many accounts of this trial, nearly all published in London. Our account not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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