A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings Upon Impeachments for High Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; From the Reign of King Henry the Fourth, to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne. In Four Volumes. With an Exact Alphabetical Table to the Whole. London: Timothy Goodwin, et al., 1719, folios.
[together with]
A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings Upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; From the Reign of King Richard II. to the End of the Reign of King George I. The Fifth & Sixth Volume. Being a Supplement to the Four Volumes of the First Edition. London: 1730, folios.
A Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings, Upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, From the Reign of King Edward VI. to the Present Time. The Seventh & Eighth Volume. With an Alphabetical Table to the Two Supplemental Volumes. London: Benj. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1735, folios.
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FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL VOLUMES. A complete set, extremely rare with both supplements. Originally conceived as a four volume set, it was expanded by another two volumes in 1730, followed by another two volumes in 1735. A very rare set, especially in contemporary bindings as here.
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington with the motto "en suivant la verite" (by following the truth).
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Size: 237 x 364 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[(2), t.p., iii-viii, 1ff., 1ff., 1020pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 876pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 1075pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 967pp., 57pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 668pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 477pp., 1pp., 308pp., t.p., i-ii, 60pp., 11pp., (2)]; [(3), t.p., iii-ix, 1pp., 652pp., (3)]; [(3), t.p., 4pp., 595pp., (3)].
Full brown calf bindings with brown tooled labels in compartments to the spines between raised bands. Some repairs to joints, overlapping parts of the spines. Bindings rubbed and scuffed. All boards attached with rubbing and along joints, and some joints and hinges starting or cracked, thus some boards are fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Red spotted page edges dulled. Bookplate attached to the front pastedown. Text blocks extremely clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Edge toning to endpapers. Lacking two tooled labels from the last two volumes. The last two volumes are slightly taller than the rest of the volumes by a few mm.
[OCLC 558117329, 1252085082, 58656275].
