1818 An Argument for Construing Largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder, to Insist on, Trial by Battle; and for Abolishing Appeals

Description

Early Edition, Very Scarce

Very scarce -only seen once at auction in the last thirty years in any of the three editions, all 1818. Rebacked in leather with the original boards, with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. With a copperplate ink inscription "Sent to the Earl of Blessington by E. A. Kendall, Esq." to the verso of the frontispiece. With an Appendix, containing a report on the debate in the House of Commons, on a clause for abolishing appeals of murder in the British North American colonies. There is a printing error in the pagination of the last three pages. The first is unpaginated, then 204, and 201. Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, 1782 – 1829, was an Irish earl. He was elected a representative peer in 1809, created Earl of Blessington in 1816, and inherited the title of Viscount Mountjoy in 1829. Edward Augustus Kendall, d.1842, was a writer. Little is known about his life. Kendall's literary output is varied, and can be divided into four general categories, "his serious ideas and proposals for political and social reforms, for example his letters on the state of Ireland; his weekly ‘popular’ journalism which, ambitiously, might be described as a forerunner of Harmsworth; his translations from the French; and his children's books" -ODNB.