The Trial of the Rev. Thomas Fysshe Palmer before the Circuit Court of

PALMER (Thomas Fysshe)

The Trial of the Rev. Thomas Fysshe Palmer before the Circuit Court of Justiciary,

Held at Perth, on the 12th and 13th September, 1793, on an Indictment for Seditious Practices…with an Appendix. First edition. 8vo. 195pp. A very good, bright copy, with light foxing on the last blank only. In a 20th century binding of half leather with cloth boards. Edinburgh, W. Skirving, [, 1793.

£200.00

The portrait of Palmer, called for by Ferguson (166) is lacking, but then again has not been seen in other copies to which we have had access. Palmer, a Unitarian minister who joined a society at Dundee known as the “Friends of Liberty”, was convicted of sedition and transported for seven years. On the voyage a fellow convict implicated Palmer and his friend Skirving Palmer’s friend and publisher) in a mutinous plot, thereafter suffering inhuman treatment at the hands of the Captain (the subject of a Pamphlet published in 1797, A Narrative of the Sufferings of T.F. Palmer during a Voyage to New South Wales, 1794, on the Surprise transport).

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