| Variant title |
Cover title: State trials |
| Variant title |
Compleat collection of state-tryals |
| Variant title |
Hargrave's state trials |
| Local note | Joyner Rare holdings include volumes 7-11 only. Volumes 1-6 of the 3rd edition are located in Joyner Rare Collection at the call number KD370.C66 1742 v. 1-6. Volumes 7-11 include an armorial bookplate of Richard B. Warren on front paste down which includes the latin phrase of the Warren family "non mihi sed deo et regi" in banner under the coat of arms. The coat of arms includes a lion with a hooked staff over three lions separated by a three rows of checked squares. |
| General note | "The first edition of the State trials, in four volumes, folio, followed immediately by a fifth, appeared anonymously in 1719, but was acknowledged to be prepared by Thomas Salmon ... The second edition appeared in folio in 1730, with changes, and a new (sixth) volume. This edition was also anonymous, but was known to be by Sollom Emlyn ... The third edition, in six volumes, folio, without material changes, was issued in 1742. Meanwhile, two additional folio volumes, the seventh and eighth, had been published (in 1735) ... These were not included in the third edition of 1742, but were reprinted, without alteration, in 1766, together with two more folio volumes, the ninth and tenth, bringing the trials down to 1760 [i.e. 1765]. The fourth edition, edited by Francis Hargrave, and known as "Hargrave's State Trials," followed in 1775-1781, in eleven volumes, folio, always bound as six volumes. The first ten volumes are reprints of the third edition and its supplements, varying only in having two columns to a page, each one representing a page in the third edition, and numbered to correspond with it. The eleventh volume was prepared by Mr. Hargrave, and continues the cases to 1779."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884. |
| General note | "The first six [volumes] will be printed exactly from the third edition, and the four next from the four supplemental volumes ... As to the eleventh volume, it is reserved wholly for additional matter."--Pref. to the present edition. |
| General note | Vols. 1-3 are dated 1776; 4-6, 1777; 7-9, 1778; 10, 1779, 11, 1781. |
| General note | The imprint varies between volumes. |
| General note | A prospectus was issued in 1775. |
| General note | First edition has title: A compleat collection of state-tryals. |
| General note | The State Trials contain a number of note-worthy cases including those related to piracy and well known pirates, such as: William Kidd, Stede Bonnet, Richard Barlicorn, etc. Cases related to pirates can be found in volumes 1 and 3. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare volumes purchased from MW Books, 9/9/2021 |
| Genre/form | Early works. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Other title | Compleat collection of state-tryals. |
