Droit le Roy, or a Digest of the Rights and Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of Great-Britain
1764. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Item #274790
ISBN: 281AIB1054074
95 pages. Timothy Breckneck (1719-1786) was a controversial lawyer and writer who was executed for conspiracy to commit murder in 1786. This work, which brought him national attention, was described in the House of Lords as a “pestilent treatise” that was “Jacobitical” in nature. despite mild dissent from the Jacobite peer Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, Droit le Roy was ordered to be burned outside the gates of Westminster in 1764.[ First edition (first printing). Very good copy, rebound in brown paper covers. The top of the pages were trimmed for binding sometimes cutting a small portion of the page headings. Pencil marks in margins from prior owner. Inscription from prior owner at top of title page partially trimmed. WorldCat locates 2 copies.
Price: $250.00