Law.- Polidori (John William) On the Punishment of Death, extract from 'The Pamphleteer', library stamp to verso of title, disbound, 1816 § Tunstall (James) A Vindication of the Power of States to Prohibit Clandestine Marriages, first edition, lacking half-title, marbled wrappers, J. & J.Rivington, 1755 § Sugden (Edward Burtenshaw) A Series of Letters to a Man of Property, on the Sale, Purchase, Lease, Settlement, and Devise of Estates, first edition, spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, upper joint split, 1809 § Amos (Andrew) A Letter to...the Lord Chief Justice...on the late Decision of the King and the Inhabitants of Coleshill, first edition, half-title, with 4pp. contemporary manuscript letter concerning the case loosely inserted, stitched into modern marbled wrappers, 1827; and c.25 others, law, mostly pamphlets, 8vo (c.30)
⁂ John William Polidori is better known as Lord Byron's physician and a member of the party at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in 1816 which produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Polidori's own contribution to the story-telling session was The Vampyre, published in 1819.
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