Trial of Sir Roger Casement.
Knott, George H., Editor. Trial of Sir Roger Casement. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1917]. First Edition. Notable Trials Series. Octavo. xl, 304 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, blind-stamped front board. Moderate shelfwear; light foxing and offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate of noted collector John M. Cameron to front pastedown. Internally clean and tight. A very good copy. $45 * Sir Roger Casement, knighted for his humanitarian work in the Congo and Amazon, was executed for treason following the 1916 Easter Rising. During World War I, Casement sought German support for Irish independence and attempted to recruit Irish POWs for an "Irish Brigade." His eloquent speech from the dock remains a landmark moment in British legal and Irish revolutionary history. From the library of John M. Cameron, a distinguished book collector whose library of Henry James first editions is now held by Cambridge University.
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