The Bloody assize / His Honour Sir Edward Parry
1929, 1st edition. London : Ernest Benn. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #415949
Physical description; 300 pp., 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, map ; 25 cm. Contents; Book I. Sowing the wind: Lucy Walter. Monmouth. Titus Oates. George Jeffreys. The Popish plot. The trial of Coleman. The murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Prince Monmouth. The downfall of Oates. The rise of Jeffreys.--Book II. Reaping the whirlwind: The landing of Monmouth. Somerset Marches. The battle of Sedgmoor. The execution of Monmouth. A summer circuit. The trial of Alice Lisle. The triumph of Jeffreys. The reign of terror. The end of the campaign. Rex v. Elizabeth Gaunt and others. The revolution.--Index. Subjects; Bloody Assizes, 1685. History Great Britain Restoration, 1660-1688. Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685.
Price: €21.00