True Crime The Unhappy Marksman Or A Perfect and Impartial D

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True Crime. The Unhappy Marksman. Or A Perfect and Impartial Discovery of the Late Barbarous and Unparallel'd Murther Committed by Mr. George Strangwayes. Quarto, A-D4, lacking the woodcut frontispiece gallows scene, title dirty, trimmed sloppily; disbound, rare, ESTC lists six copies in North America, three copies offered at auction since 1950; 7 x 5 1/4 in. London: by T.N. for R. Clavell, 1659.

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First and only edition. Strangwayes was pressed to death after being found guilty of shooting and killing his brother-in-law through a window. A veteran of the first Civil War, Major Strangwayes' death by execution was hastened by friends who sat on the weight placed on his chest, to help the execution to a speedier end. Even so, it took eight to ten minutes for him to expire. Wing U-68; ESTC R204583.