Cobbett, William (1763-1835) *

Howell, Thomas Bayly

London : Printed by T.C. Hansard for Longman, etc., 1809-14

roy. 8vo., neatly half bound

with Notes and other Illustrations by Howell, Vols. 1 to 21

21

English

£7. 7s.

Devonshire Terrace (1844)

Sotheran's Valuation (c1871)

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

S113.3d; V11.22; P4c719g; C092.13/C092.14/C093.01

H9/G9

Library, shelving under bookcase right of fireplace, item 05

Contains not only State Trials but some of the most notorious and interesting Causes Célèbres down to the period of publication. The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 31, after declaring this work to be of national interest, and indispensable to Lawyers and Statesmen, finishes by saying, 'nor is there any work to which those who merely read to amuse themselves may be more safely referred for rational and agreeable relaxation'; and Miss Mitford, in her Recollections, confesses to a similar partiality.

Pilgrim states 26 vols. but Stonehouse and CD Junior's Catalogue 21

Vols. 1-7 in location H9
Vols. 8-20 (vol. 19 missing) in location G9
Vols. 19 & 21 in location G9 (listed separately)

This Complete Collection of States Trails (to 1784), acquired by Dickens for (£5.10) at the auction of book-collector Thomas Hill's library by Evans of Pall Mall in March 1841; see Pilgrim Letters 4, pp. 229-30&nn.'