Sales catalogue 108: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/17
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 108: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    264 Galley and Chater. A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley . .. and Mr. Daniel Chater . . . by Fourteen Notorious Smugglers... The Seventh Edition. Tllus- trated with Seven Plates, Descriptive of the Barbarous Cruelties. Brighton & Worthing, W. J. Smith, n.p. 10s 6d 8vo. 124,17 pp. Original quarter roan. 7 plates. 265 Genuine Narrative (A) of the Life and Surprising Robberies and Adventures of William Page, who was Executed on Pennenden Heath, near Maidstone, in Kent, on Thursday, the 6th of April, 1758, for Robbing. Capt. Farrington, near Black Heath. The Second Edition. London, M. Cooper, 1758 8vo. 48 pp. Portrait & folding plate of Page going to execution. Bound with: _ Discoveries (The) of John Poulter, alias Baxter ; who was Apprehended for Robbng Dr. Hancock, of Salisbury, on Clarken Down, near Bath; and thereupon Discovered a most Numerous Gang of Villains . . . Sherborne, Printed for R. Goadby, 1754 15s 8vo. 48 pp The 2 bound together. Half calf. 266 Genuine Trial (The) and Affecting Case of Eliza Fenning, who was Convicted of Attempting to Poison Mr. Turner and Famil'yby Mixing Arsenic in Yeast Dump- lings. London, J. Duncombe (1815) 12mo. 24 pp. Folding plate. Fore-edge of title- page shaved, affecting a few letters. Ten thousand people took part in the funeral procession, & the case was so famous that it engaged the attention of Dr. Parr and Charles Dickens, who believed her innocent. Bound with : Trading Beggars Exposed. Extracts from the House of Commons Report on the State of Mendicity in the Metropolis; clearly Proving that Beggars by Trade Earn more than Honest Mechanics. Part I. London, W. Smith & Co....1815 12s 6d 12mo. 26 pp. Frontispiece. 2 vols.in 1. Half roan. 267 Gibb (Eric) Thrilling Incidents of the Convict System in Australasia. How it Grew and was Nourished, and How it De- clined. Compiled from Authentic Sources. London, Hammond & Green, 1895 6s 8vo. 155 pp. New quarter roan. Original stiff cover preserved, but defective at corner. 268 Gilbert (Thomas) Observations on the Bills for Amending and Rendering more Effectual the Laws Relative to Houses of Correction; for the Better Relief and Employment of the Poor: and For Amend- ing and Rendering more Effectual the Laws Relative to Rogues, Vagabonds, Beggars, and other Idle and Disorderly Persons. London, G. Wilkie, 1782 25s 8vo. 24 pp. Unbound. Gilbert was indefatigable i in his efforts for the reform CABLE ADDRESS : 19 ment of the poor. His efforts for the abolition of imprisonment for small debts did not bear fruit till many years later, but his name still lives in Gilbert’s Act in connection with Queen Anne’s Bounty. 269 Glasgow Poisoning Case. Unabridged Report of the Evidence in this Extraordinary Trial, with all the Passionate Love Letters written by the Prisoner to the Deceased, and Numerous Illustrations, including Por- trait of Madeleine Smith. London, George Vickers, 1857 : 5s 12mo. 77 pp. New cloth. Illustrations. London, Longmans, Green & Co... . 1932 6s 8vo. 349 pp. Original cloth. Plates. 271 Gurney (Joseph John) Notes on a Visit made to some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England; in Company with Elizabeth Fry ; with Some General Obser- vations on the Subject of Prison Discipline. Second Edition. London, Printed for Archi- bald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1819 12s 6d Tall 12mo. 170 pp. Boards, new back. Uncut. . 272 Hartshorne (Albert, F.S.A.) Hanging in Chains. New York, Cassell Publishing Company, 1893 6s 8vo. 120 pp. Original boards, new cloth back. 11 plates. 273 Hellish Murder (A), Committed by a French Midwife, on the Body of her Husband, Jan. 27, 1687/8. For which she was Ar- raigned at the Old-Bailey, Feb. 22, 1687/8 and Pleaded Guilty. And the Day Follow- ing Received Sentence to be Burnt. Lon- don, Randal Taylor, 1688 £2 28 Sm. 4to. 39 pp. Half roan. Folding plate of the erent yous top margins shaved (affecting only gination o74 ‘History (The) of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in Capital Cases, viz., Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &c. Both by the Unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat and Attainder, and by the Eccle- siastical, Civil and Common Laws of these Realms. London, A. Bell, 1715 £1 10s 8vo. 452 pp. 2 leaves. Calf, rebacked. Slightly waterstained. 275 Holroyd (Edward, of Gray’s Inn) Obser- vations upon the Case of Abraham Thornton, who was Tried at Warwick, August 8, 1817, for the Murder of Mary Ashford : shewing the Danger of Pressing Presumptive Evidence too Far. Third Edition. London, J. Mawman, 1819 8vo. 88 pp. Folding plan. An engraved view and an engraved portrait of Mary Ashford inserted. Bound with Abraham Thornton and Trial by Battle. London, R. H. Squire, N.pD. 15s Roy. 8vo. Pp. (113)-128. Original wrappers pre- served. This is a separate No. of * The Calendar of Crime.”’ The 2 bound together, half calf.
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