HILL, Lockley. An Appeal to Justice and the Impartial World, being a true and faithful narrative, and just complaint, of the unparallel'd and unjustifiable barbarity and hellish cruelty exercis'd on L. Hill, Esq., a prisoner in the county goal of Somerset, at Ilchester, by the keeper thereof and his adherents, Exeter: printed by Andrew Brice, and sold by John Dinning in Taunton, 1726, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 28pp. (rather browned, stain at lower margins, first few leaves with small, neat repairs), with a further 3 pages of narrative in manuscript, headed "P. S. Sept 28 1724," recording the author's continued persecutions, 19th-century polished calf, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat-backed spine lettered in gilt (some flaking to covers), g.e. [MOST RARE. No entry in ESTCm] | Christie's

Lot 141

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HILL, Lockley. An Appeal to Justice and the Impartial World, being a true and faithful narrative, and just complaint, of the unparallel'd and unjustifiable barbarity and hellish cruelty exercis'd on L. Hill, Esq., a prisoner in the county goal of Somerset, at Ilchester, by the keeper thereof and his adherents, Exeter: printed by Andrew Brice, and sold by John Dinning in Taunton, 1726, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 28pp. (rather browned, stain at lower margins, first few leaves with small, neat repairs), with a further 3 pages of narrative in manuscript, headed "P. S. Sept 28 1724," recording the author's continued persecutions, 19th-century polished calf, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat-backed spine lettered in gilt (some flaking to covers), g.e. [MOST RARE. No entry in ESTCm]

Details

HILL, Lockley. An Appeal to Justice and the Impartial World, being a true and faithful narrative, and just complaint, of the unparallel'd and unjustifiable barbarity and hellish cruelty exercis'd on L. Hill, Esq., a prisoner in the county goal of Somerset, at Ilchester, by the keeper thereof and his adherents, Exeter: printed by Andrew Brice, and sold by John Dinning in Taunton, 1726, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 28pp. (rather browned, stain at lower margins, first few leaves with small, neat repairs), with a further 3 pages of narrative in manuscript, headed "P. S. Sept 28 1724," recording the author's continued persecutions, 19th-century polished calf, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat-backed spine lettered in gilt (some flaking to covers), g.e. [MOST RARE. No entry in ESTCm]

Provenance

The narrative continuation in manuscript is presumably in Hill's hand, and possibly unique to this copy. A note, in another hand, on the blank verso of the final page of Hill's manuscript states: "Lockley Hill died Feb 6th 1729/30 aged 58. He was the eldest son of Sir Roger Hill who died 2 months before him aged 87, by whom he was disinherited for conduct which led to the sufferings described in this tract."

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