Thoughts in Prison: in Five Parts. Viz. The imprisonment. The retrospect. Publick punishment. The trial. Futurity. [.] to which are added, his last prayer, Written in the Night before his Death. The Convicts Address To His Unhappy Brethren: and other miscellaneous pieces. With an account of the author, and a list of his works. The Second Edition

Edité par For Charles Dilley and G. Kearsley, London, 1781

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Second edition (first published 1777). 12mo. Full 18th-c. tree calf with contrasting title label and ornament to spine; [ii],xxxvi,192pp; frontispiece portrait; wanting half-title. A pretty copy, joints and boards firm and free of notable wear; internally fresh and free of foxing; Very Good indeed. Early presentation to front endpaper, "N.S.[?] Nancy Henning from her Affectionate Father;" further signed on verso of frontispiece, "Henning / [illegible] / 1789;" and, to title-page, "Henning-Smyth." Second edition of this much-reprinted work of prison literature, a verse apologia composed by William Dodd, an Anglican minister, in the weeks following his imprisonment for forging the name of his former student, the Earl of Chesterfield, on a £4,000 bank note. Chesterfield was not in a forgiving mood, and the work culminates with Dodds' prayer composed the night before his execution for the crime. Includes "The Convict's Address to His Unhappy Brethren," which appears on pp.157-78, and is generally atrributed to Samuel Johnson. Indeed, Johnson publicly petitioned for clemency in Dodd's case, despite his own misgivings regarding the convict's character, which were succinctly expressed in a letter to Boswell written the day following the execution: "His character is very bad; I hope all is not true that is charged upon him." A desirable copy, very well-preserved, with a contemporary woman reader's provenance. ESTC T133880. COURTNEY-NICHOL SMITH pp. 128-129.

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Thoughts in Prison: in Five Parts. Viz. The imprisonment. The retrospect. Publick punishment. The trial. Futurity. [.] to which are added, his last prayer, Written in the Night before his Death. The Convicts Address To His Unhappy Brethren: and other miscellaneous pieces. With an account of the author, and a list of his works. The Second Edition
Auteur
[PRISON LITERATURE] DODD, William [D.D.]; Samuel Johnson (attrib)
Éditeur
For Charles Dilley and G. Kearsley, London
Année de publication
1781
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Law, Literature Before 1900, Prisons, Penology & Penal Reform

Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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