Finnerty v Tipper: A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the.

Date de parution : 1809

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"A Shilling for His Reputation": An Ironic Libel Suit Brought by a Convicted Libeler - Exceptionally Rare [Trial]. Tipper, Samuel, Defendant. Finnerty, Peter [c.1766-1822], Plaintiff. Finnerty v. Tipper. A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the Action Brought by Peter Finnerty Against Samuel Tipper, Publisher of "The Satirist," For a Libel. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas, Before Sir James Mansfield, And a Special Jury, On Saturday, The 18th of February Last. Taken in Shorthand by an Eminent Reporter; With Some Prefatory Observations and Notes by the Editor. London: Printed for J.M. Richardson, 1809. vii, 80 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"; 22.2 x 14 cm). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet, retaining its original untrimmed edges. Moderate toning, light intermittent foxing, and minor soiling in a few places. Leaves starting at the head but remaining firmly secure. A well-preserved survival of a fragile production. $1,500. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * First and only edition. This exceptionally rare verbatim report captures a deeply ironic moment in British legal history: a notorious libeler bringing a civil suit for libel to protect a reputation he barely possessed. The plaintiff, Peter Finnerty, was a fiery Irish radical, publisher, and journalist whose career was defined by legal battles against the British establishment. In 1797, he was convicted of seditious libel for publishing works sympathetic to the United Irishmen rebellion. Finnerty's relentless anti-establishment crusade made him a celebrated figure among Romantic radicals; the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley famously wrote and published A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811) specifically to raise funds for Finnerty's mounting legal fees and support him during his imprisonment. By 1809, Finnerty was once again in the government's crosshairs, facing new libel charges after publishing a pamphlet exposing the Duke of York's scandalous sale of military promotions (the infamous Mary Anne Clarke affair). While Finnerty awaited trial for this offense, Samuel Tipper, publisher of the fiercely Tory and pro-establishment magazine The Satirist, launched a vicious print attack on him. Refusing to take the insult lying down, Finnerty swiftly brought a civil libel suit against Tipper i.…

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Finnerty v Tipper: A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the.
Auteur
Trial; Tipper, Samuel, Defendant; Finnerty, Peter
Année de publication
1809
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Couverture souple
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