Trial of Henry Fauntleroy
by Henry Fauntleroy
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8vo. pp. 269, ff. [11] (plates). Contains illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables. “First edition” penciled on front free endpaper.
This work deals with the trial of the English banker and forger Henry Fauntleroy (1784-1824), who was found guilty of appropriating trust funds and was executed in November 1824. The work has an appendix on other famous trials for forgery, featuring those of John Ayliff, 1759; John Rice, 1763; Daniel and Robert Perreau, 1776; Dr. William Dodd, 1777; William Wynne Ryland, 1783; Henry Weston, 1796; Henry Cock, 1802; John Hadfield, 1803; and Joseph Blackburn, 1815. It also lists some famous forgeries from the execution of Henry Fauntleroy in 1824 to abolition of the death penalty in 1837, i.e., Henry Savary, 1825; Captain John Montgomery, 1828; Joseph Hunton, 1828; Rowland Stephenson, 1828; and Thomas Maynard, 1829.
This is not a ‘literary’ forgery, but a very famous execution. See R. Landon, Literary forgeries and mystifications: an exhibition. Toronto, 2003, pp. 63-64.
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