FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS CASES

Hardback. The author uses his own wide legal experience to present some excellent studies of the State Trials of England. Chapters include : the prosecution of Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh. Then comes the "Martyr Chaires" followed by the abominable conduct of Judge Jeffreys towards the innocent Lady Alice Lisle; Oscar Wilde, Tichborne, the Divorce Case of Queen Caroline, The Gangsters of the Berchtesgaden + much more. Illus.+ Index. 263pp. 8vo. h/back. V. lightly browned edges, sl. faded top edge of back cover, bright silver title. Vg+