[Rarebooks] fs-James Boswell-related

Joe Luttrell rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Tue Apr 6 23:55:36 EDT 2004


[BOSWELL, JAMES].  The Trial of James Stuart . . . Before the
High Court of Justiciary, At Edinburgh . . . With an Appendix of
Documents.  Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.],
Edinburgh, 1822.  Modern 1/4 calf, a very good, clean copy. [49227
L45L56EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49227     $ 450.00

The trial for murder arising from the duel in which James Boswell's
eldest son was killed, with Stuart privileged to have defending him
both Jeffreys and Cockburn, the latter of whom later remarked "No
Scotch trial in my time excited such interest".

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