Tichborne Case (8 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Tear to fore-edge of three leaves, pp 107-112, the odd spot. Orig. printed yellow paper wrappers; tear with sl. loss to lower corner of front wrapper, fore-edge of front wrapper a little torn, sl. wear to spine. W.H. Smith embossed stamp. A good-plus copy. Not in BL; Southampton only on Copac; OCLC adds copies at the universities of Amsterdam, Minnesota and Melbourne. Price one shilling. The title printed on the front cover is The "Times" Summary of the Lord Chief Justice's Summing-Up of the Great Tichborne Trial. A concise and complete history of the whole trial.

Orig. pink printed wrappers. v.g. The first case of the 'Tichborne Claimant' in which Arthur Orton attempted to evict Colonel Lushington from Tichborne Park. Orton's case collapsed, he was charged with perjury and committed to Newgate.

Half title. contemp. half black roan; a little rubbed. Sotheran bookseller's ticket. Text in two columns.

Photo. port. laid on card; corners clipped & imprint address trimmed through & lower margin of card. 10 x 6.2cm. v.g. A photograph of the rotund Arthur Orton, smoking a cigar and sat by a table adorned with three books. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Two photographic portraits, both with caption titles printed in green. Approx. 10 x 6.5cm. v.g. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

London, 1872. Oblong sheet folded into 16 panels. (illustrator). London, 1872. Oblong sheet folded into 16 panels. A Rare and Vibrant Victorian Pictorial Satire of the Century's Most Infamous Legal Charade [Trial]. [Tichborne Case]. The Tichborne Trial As Told to Our Grandchildren. London: H. G. Clarke and Co., [c.1872]. Oblong 34-1/4" x 11-1/2" (87 x 29 cm) sheet, 5-3/4" x 4-3/4" (14.5 x 12 cm) when folded completely, in sixteen panels glued into pictorial wrappers, title to front wrapper and advertisements to its verso and rear wrapper. Front illustration and panels, each with a woodcut vignette and accompanying satirical verse, hand-colored. Unobtrusive light foxing and soiling, a few small tears along fold lines not affecting images, colors vivid. A well-preserved survival of a fragile and seldom-encountered form of Victorian popular ephemera. $1,750. * This folding satirical panorama was issued during the height of public fascination with the Tichborne case, which captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1854, Roger Tichborne, the 25 year-old heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, disappeared while traveling in South America, presumed to have died in a shipwreck. His mother refused to abandon hope. When she heard rumors that he was in Australia, she placed several advertisements concerning his whereabouts in Australian newspapers. In 1865, an Australian butcher named Thomas Castro, sometimes referred to as Arthur Orton, claimed to be the missing heir. He failed to convince the courts, was convicted of perjury and served a long prison sentence. The dispute over his identity continued until his death in 1898. The case generated a vast body of popular literature and has continued to captivate the public as recently as Zadie Smith's 2023 novel The Fraud. Our example is one of several known silhouette illustration satires of the case by Clarke & Co, all of which are rare. The vivid hand-coloring highlights the illustration style, which had the advantage (for the publisher) of emphasizing Orton's size. OCLC locates 7 copies of Clarke & Co. satires under this title, 2 in law libraries (Yale, Harvard).

12 vols folio, of the full transcript of the 188-day trial: I. Speech of Mr. Hawkins, Counsel for the Prosecution, pp.1-306; II-V: Witnesses for the Prosecution, pp.1-2,520 to the end of the 57th day; [without: Days 58-89; VI-VIII, Witnesses for the Defence, to the end of 122nd day]; IX, Witnesses for the Defence and Evidence in Reply to the end of the 145th day; [without: Days 146-158]; X: Mr Hawkins' Reply, to the end of the 168th day; XI & XII, the Charge of the Lord Chief Justice (Summing up and Verdict) to the end of the 188th and final day. Half dark blue calf, a little rubbed, but all vols good and sound. There appear to be no complete transcripts of the Tichborne Case in the British Isles. BL has 9 vols, but not the 2 vols of 'The Charge'; TCD has 6 vols. The National Archive has 23 vols (presumably each vol. containing less than here) numbered 1-14; 1-6; 11-13. There are three locations in the USA for 14 vol. sets, presumably complete: Temple Law Library, Philadelphia; Pritzker Legal Research Center; and the Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington. One of the longest and most sensational cases of the 19thC which caught the public imagination. Despite the guilty verdict on the two charges of perjury, public opinion backed the Claimant, Arthur Orton, and his Counsel, Dr. Edward Kenealy. The latter was vilified by the legal establishment, lost his status as Queen's Counsel and was disbarred. Orton served ten years of his 14-year sentence and was released in 1884, dying in 1898. He was given a pauper's burial.