NEW ABRIDGEMENT AND CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE STATE TRIALS; Wherein are Inserted, Several Trials Not in Any Other Collection. Also, Some Trials That were Taken in Haste and Scarce Intelligible, Are Brought into Regular Order; And Many Deficiencies Throughout the Whole Supply'd. Likewise, Remarks are Made on Each Trial, Shewing What the Law in Criminal Cases Anciently Was; And How it Has Been Altered, And Stands at this Day. Together, With Impartial Memoirs of the Times and Characters of the Sufferers. To Which is Added, A Compleat Alphabetical Index of the Names of the Prisoners Tried, The Times When, Their Crimes, And Their Punishment.
London: Printed for Mess. J.R. & J. Hazard; W. Mears; J. Stone; J. Mechell; J. Applebee; C. Corbett; Ward and Chandler. 1737. Second Edition. Large Folio, 387 x 250 mm [15 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches], early (contemporary?) binding of half leather over marbled paper boards, the spine with gilt..... More