Beschreibung:

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