1795 High Treason - bound for presentation ?

Description: [JACOBITE Rebellions / Thomas PAINE and the 1794 Treason Trials, the 1798 Irish Rebellion]. Hon. Charles YORKE (1722-1770). Some Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture, for High-Treason: occasioned by a clause in the late act, for making it treason to correspond with the Pretender’s sons, or any of their Agents, &c. with an appendix, concerning estates-tail in Scotland. By the Hon. Charles Yorke … The Fourth Edition [edited by his son Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke]. London: printed for T. Cadell jnr and W. Davies, 1795. Octavo (8 x 5inches; 207 x 127mm). Pp. [i-]xx; [1-]238. With the autograph signature in ink of the editor, Lord Hardwicke, beneath the text on p.vii. Condition of contents: excellent. Apparently bound for presentation in red straight-grained morocco, gilt-rule border to covers, the flat spine divided into compartments by gilt rules, lettered in the second compartment, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Condition of binding: discolouration to spine, small split to upper joint, extremities somewhat rubbed (see images). Provenance: John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1748 – 1830, signed inscription on front blank, noting the gift of the book from the editor on 16 Feb 1803 when Redesdale was Lord Chancellor of Ireland). Presentation copy, signed by the editor, of this “able treatise [by Yorke] … in defense of the severe sentences his father had given to the Scottish Jacobite peers following the Battle of Culloden”(Wikipedia). The Earl of Hardwicke seems to have been prompted to re-issue his father’s work by the discussions which resulted from the so-called ‘Treason Trials’ of 1794, when Pitt and his government tried to cripple the British radical movement of the time. The 1798 Irish Rebellion would have given this re-issue a renewed relevance, and the fact that the present copy was presented to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland is particularly fitting. “John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, PC, KC, FRS (18 August 1748 – 16 January 1830), known as Sir John Mitford between 1793 and 1802, was an English lawyer and politician. He was [Attorney General between 1799 and 1801, then] Speaker of the House of Commons between 1801 and 1802 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1802 and 1806.” [Wikipedia). ESTC T145875.

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