Justin Lovill Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 8.58x5.67x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VOLUME FOUR ONLY, hardcover in excellent condition (slight handling, slight pencil erasure on the front endpaper, two slight indentations on lower edges). 554 pages. [2.6 lbs]. Book.

Hardback. Condition: New. `I can hardly believe, by the tranquillity of every thing about me, that we are a people who have just lost an empire. But it is so.' So wrote Edmund Burke on 30th May 1776. In the city about him duels, elopements, plays, highway robberies, masquerades and daily life continued much as usual while across the Atlantic cities burned and muskets blazed as the political order of the world was recast. Much has been written about events in America at this time, but what was it like to be living in London? This book seeks to answer that question by way of a daily chronicle in which the year's stories emerge through diaries, letters, newspaper reports, and a wealth of previously unpublished material, from state papers to Edward Gibbon's pocket-book. Among notable events were the trial of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy, David Garrick's farewell to the stage, Captain Cook's setting out on his final voyage, and publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. These unfold alongside a host of forgotten stories, characters and incidents to create a revealing portrait of London in a momentous year.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VOLUME THREE ONLY, hardcover in excellent condition: slight handling, hint of wear, slight pencil erasures on the front endpapers, otherwise unmarked. Without DJ. [2.5 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NDAI (No Dust Jacket As Issued. Unread set! Red cloth spines and patterned boards with trace wear. Dark blue slipcase with minor wear and lightly bumped corners. Bindings sound, interiors clean. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Ships well packed in a box. International addresses will require extra postage.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Folio Society. Four volume set, complete. Fine hardcovers in slipcase.

Hardback. Condition: New. `I can hardly believe, by the tranquillity of every thing about me, that we are a people who have just lost an empire. But it is so.' So wrote Edmund Burke on 30th May 1776. In the city about him duels, elopements, plays, highway robberies, masquerades and daily life continued much as usual while across the Atlantic cities burned and muskets blazed as the political order of the world was recast. Much has been written about events in America at this time, but what was it like to be living in London? This book seeks to answer that question by way of a daily chronicle in which the year's stories emerge through diaries, letters, newspaper reports, and a wealth of previously unpublished material, from state papers to Edward Gibbon's pocket-book. Among notable events were the trial of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy, David Garrick's farewell to the stage, Captain Cook's setting out on his final voyage, and publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. These unfold alongside a host of forgotten stories, characters and incidents to create a revealing portrait of London in a momentous year.…

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First thus. It's not easy to find a full four-volume set of this Folio Society title, in the first printing of the first edition, in this as-new condition, at least in the U.S. The second printing, which was produced at a German, rather than British, printer and on different paper, than the first? Maybe. Individual volumes? Readily available. But all four volumes of "Notable Historical Trials" in all their quarter-bound, gorgeous combed-marble, slip-cased glory, in such condition that they probably have never been read? Challenging. Editor Justin Lovill said in the note that begins each volume that his purpose was to "create a collection of classic accounts of notable historical trials designed for the general reader"-this isn't a collection of legal briefs for lawyers, in other words. Lovill does include actual trial testimony when he can, however, and other legal documents such as confessions. His note also states that his preference was to draw on accounts contemporaneous to the trials themselves, and directly related to the trials, whenever possible, though he also used his judgement as to the reliability and readability (for modern readers) of those accounts. Lovill covers 41 cases in chronological order across the four volumes, dating from the trial of Socrates in 399 BCE to the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Lovill is British and The Folio Society is based in London, so it may be no wonder that his selection tends to be Anglocentric, just as it tends towards trials with great historical significance that should be familiar to most readers in the UK and the US. But that is not always the case. As an example, tucked between the trial of Galileo and that of King Charles I in Volume II is the trial of a French village priest, Urban Grandier, who was convicted of witchcraft in 1634 and burned at the stake. The volumes are amply illustrated. Almost all of the illustrations are reproductions of artwork from the time of the trials themselves, often formal portraits of the characters involved and sometimes reproductions from relevant documents. But as time went on, ink woodcuts and engravings were widely produced for popular consumption. Trials such as these were terrific fodder for such mass media. When the original artwork appeared in color, it is reproduced in color in this collection; when it originally appeared in black and white, so it appears here. The whole thing kicks off with an introduction in the first volume by John Mortimore, barrister, but most famous as the creator of the great "Rumpole of the Bailey," who meditates on what trials are really for and whether they achieve justice, concluding with, "So, reading these trials is as good a way as any of understanding history." He has a point. All four of these volumes are quarter-bound, with dark red cloth spines and combed marbled boards. Each volume has title of the set stamped in gold within a square black integrated label on the spine, framed by gold stamped lines at the top and bottom. A similar black and gold label of the Folio Society logo is at the bottom of the spine. The volume title is stamped in gold on the red spine below the top label: I Socrates to the Gunpowder Plot; II Galileo to Admiral Byng; III Boston Massacre to Queen Caroline; IV Burke & Hare to Oscar Wilde. There are no flaws on any of the bindings; all are tight and square. The books were issued without dust jackets but came together in a single slip case, covered in black paper, with the names of most of the trials stamped in gold on the sides. The case is in fine structural shape; a touch of rubbing on the bottom. There are no marks, creases, or tears to the text block; no pages loose or missing. A russet-colored print of Lady Justice appears on the free end paper of the front and back of each volume. Photos are forthcoming or available upon request.…