The Englishman's Right, A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law...
A Significant Work on the Right to Trial by Jury, This Copy Likely Belonged to Horace Walpole Hawles, Sir John [1645-1716]. [Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626)]. The Englishman's Right: A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law, and a Juryman; Plainly Setting Forth, I. The Antiquity, II. The Excellent Designed Use, III. The Office and Just Privileges of Juries, By the Law of England. London: Printed for Tho. Wotton, 1732. viii, 52 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet, untrimmed edges, bound in later wrappers with paper label to front cover. Penciling to paper label. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior, light browning to margins of title page. A very good copy. $650. * Second edition of a work first published in 1680. This edition with a preface 'To The Bookseller' by 'J.K.' A staunch Whig, Hawles wrote The Englishman's Right to outline the rights, duties and proper behavior of a juryman and to promote the jury system as a bulwark against tyranny. Immediately successful among Whigs and others who saw themselves as defenders of English liberties, it was received with great enthusiasm in America, where it was reprinted several times well into the nineteenth century. Part of Lot 498 at Sotheby's, March 13, 1922, and possibly from the pamphlet collection of famed author and antiquarian Horace Walpole [1717-1797]. See Hazen, A Catalogue Of Horace Walpole's Library 1608. English Short-Title Catalogue T106583.
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