ballantine serjeant william (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST U. S. EDITION hardcover, bound in dark green cloth, with stylized initials of author in gilt on front cover, and slightly dulled gilt lettering on spine, is in POOR condition, having considerable wear to top and bottom spine; corners quite bumped and worn; some light staining to covers and spine; considerable shaking to volume, with first and last endpaper gutters very cracked (see photo), and broken sewn binding between pages 144 and 145--in fact this book must be handled very gently, or it could easily fall apart; occasional small stains throughout book; pp. 493 to 498 show a crease at top corner; first page after reverse of first free endpaper has small corner piece missing and small tears near it. One illustration, a frontispiece sepia photograph of the author. Biography and autobiography. British. Barristers. Sergeant-at-Law. Law. DB.

Hardcover. Etat : Good reading / reference copy. No jacket. First Edition. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. Good reading / reference copy. This book has several condition problems: The tissue-guard is stuck to the frontispiece. Moisture stains on the cover. Wear to spine ends. Pages are a bit wavy and have light damp stains at the edges (in the margins only - text is NOT affected). However the text is perfectly legible. Not in collector's condition, but suitable for reading / reference. Frontispiece is a tipped-in photographic portrait. After about 28 autobiographical pages of Ballantine's early life in England, he begins a detailed account of his travels in America. There are chapters on the Streets of New York; Journalism and Fashion; Theater in America; Plays and Players; Charles Dickens' Performances; his meeting with General Grant; New York Society; Courts, Crimes and Punishments; American Prisons; Law and Lawyers; Boston; Philadelphia; The Clover Club; Buffalo, Niagara, and Chicago; Ogden, Utah; Salt Lake City and the Mormons; the widows of Brigham Young; a Murder Trial; his conversations with President Taylor; the return trip to Liverpool; his associations with Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, etc. Original purple cloth, gilt. Flake 264: "Utah and the Mormons, pp. 134-168." Not in Howes, Soliday, Decker, Eberstadt, or Graff. First Edition. Hardcover. Good reading / reference copy/No jacket. 8vo. xvi, 259pp. + 48 page publisher's catalogue.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good Plus. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1882. Hardback. Volume 2 of 2. Original dark-brown pebble-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. Gilt and blind-stamped decoration to cover (monogram). Original black end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. (xiv), 308 pages. Includes bibliographical references. Appendix. Index. 48pp catalogue printed in brown ink dated March 1, 1882. Scarce first printing. Referenced by: OCLC 15745232. SERJEANT WILLIAM BALLANTINE, SL (3 January 1812 ? 9 January 1887) was an English Serjeant-at-law, a legal position defunct since the legal reforms of the 1870s. Ballantine served as Counsel for Sir Charles Mordaunt in the then notorious divorce case against his wife. Lady Mordaunt, who, much younger than her husband, informed him that he was not the father of her child. She admitted to him that she had committed adultery with a number of men, including the Prince of Wales, 'often, and in open day.' It became clear that because of these revelations that the Prince of Wales would have to be summoned to court to give evidence in the case. Although he could be subpoenaed, he could not be forced to give evidence; Queen Victoria, his mother, advised him not to attend the court. However, the Prince agreed to attend the court, and to be questioned. After delicate questioning by Lady Mordaunt's counsel, the Prince denied that 'any improper familiarity or criminal act' had taken place between himself and Lady Mordaunt. It was generally believed that by stating this the Prince had perjured himself. Ballantine, as counsel for Lord Mordaunt, the plaintiff, was entitled to cross-examine the Prince of Wales. Instead, in an attempt to save the Prince from any embarrassment, he declared that he had no questions for His Royal Highness, thus saving the Prince's honour. However, Ballantine lost the case because he had failed to convince the jury that Lady Mordaunt was guilty. Lg. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Half title, photo. front. port. Orig. maroon cloth; spine sl. faded. v.g. A very popular autobiography; this edition published in the same year as the first, adds postscripts to some chapters and corrects errors. Ballantine, 1812-1887, was a 'Serjeant-at'Law', a post in English law abolished in 1870. He was involved in the Mordaunt divorce case in which Ballantine withdrew from cross-examining the Prince of Wales and his client, Sir Charles Mordaunt, lost the case.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Illustrated (illustrateur). First American Edition. First American edition. Cloth binding, gold titles, 527 pp. Frontispiece portrait, protective tissue. BALLANTINE, WILLIAM (1812-1887), English serjeant-atlaw, was born in London on the 3rd of January 1812, being the son of a London police-magistrate. He was educated at St Paul?s school, and called to the bar in 1834. He began in early life a varied acquaintance with dramatic and literary society, and his experience, combined with his own pushing character and acute intellect, helped to obtain for him very soon a large practice, particularly in criminal cases. He became known as a formidable cross-examiner, his great rival being Serjeant Parry (1816?1880). The three great cases of his career were his successful prosecution of the murderer Franz Muller in 1864, his skilful defence of the Tichborne claimant in 1871 and his defence of the gaekwar of Baroda in 1875, his fee in this last case being one of the largest ever known. Ballantine became a serjeant-at-law in 1856. He died at Margate on the 9th of January 1887, having previously published more than one volume of reminiscences. Serjeant Ballantine?s private life was decidedly Bohemian; and though he earned large sums, he died very poor. Antique ex-llibrary with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Boards skewed, rub along edge of spine, light shelfwear. Very good condition.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 4to. On first leaf of bifolium. Forty-three lines of neat text. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with a few small closed tears. The author ('Sir') is unnamed, but is presumably the 'Editor' referred to in the text. Signed 'Wm Ballantine'. By recipient, at head of first page: 'Letter from Mr Sergeant [sic] Ballantine / United Club -'. Begins: 'I have to acknowledge the receipt of what purports to be a specimen of a new family paper called "The English Resident" & which it is supposed will supply a want existing especially amongs the English sojourners of all descriptions in different French places of resort. & notably at this one of the most favourable watering places of the British people - Those who favoured me with the number in question were aware that for many years of a busy life there has rarely been a year during which upon more than one occasion I have not sought health and recreation uponits shores. I have had abundant opportunities of appreciating its advantages & recognizing its wants and I welcome very heartily the probabl advent of a newspaper which appears to be conducted upon principles likely to render it a very popular addition.' The second half of the letter is in much the same highfallutin tone (see reference to 'the freedom and elasticity of Boulogne air'), with Ballantine feeling that is is 'impertinent on my part to offer hints to an Editor so evidently experienced as the Gentleman who has supplied news in the number that I have had the pleasure of reading'. See Image of second page.