Introductory and Concluding Remarks, Upon the Trial and Execution..

1831. Durham: Printed and sold by George Walker, 1831.. Durham: Printed and sold by George Walker, 1831. Unrecorded Remarks on a Brutal Durham Murder Walker, George, Publisher. [Clarke, Thomas (d.1831)]. Introductory and Concluding Remarks, Upon the Trial and Execution of Thomas Clarke, For the Wilful Murder of Mary Ann Westhorpe, At Hallgarth Mill, Near Durham, On Sunday, The 8th of August, 1830. With Engravings. Durham: Printed and sold by George Walker, 1831. [ii], 5, [2], 44-57, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece of Thomas Clarke. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers, publisher's advertisements to rear wrapper, edges untrimmed. Light toning, light soiling to exterior. A well-preserved copy of a rare item. $850. * Clarke murdered Westhorpe, a fellow servant, in August 1830 and was convicted and hanged in February of 1831. This pamphlet consists of religious commentary on the crime and its aftermath. The author is particularly concerned with the crime as "a notorious and shameful violation of the Sabbath-day" and laments the public's lurid interest in Clarke's execution (and the inappropriate number of women present at the hanging). Our pamphlet appears to consist of the first five pages of The Trial and Execution of Thomas Clarke, also published by Walker in 1831, with an 18-page appendix that does not appear to have been part of that work. (All recorded copies of Trial and Execution are 42 pp., and it is possible that the sheets in our pamphlet represent a planned but unpublished appendix. We could locate no other account of the Clarke trial published by Walker.) The title page calls for "Engravings," while the front wrapper mentions only "a Portrait." This title appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC, Library Hub or the online catalogues of Harvard or the Library of Congress. OCLC locates 3 copies of Trial and Execution (Yale Law School, Durham University, Oxford).