8vo. viii, 155pp, [1]. With six folding plates containing facsimiles of manuscript letters. Uncut in contemporary two-tone paper boards, rebacked, contrasting modern gilt-tooled burgundy morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly worn, with chipping to foot of spine, and bumping to corners. Some light damp-staining to gutters, scuffing to endpapers, and occasional spotting, but largely clean.

The sole edition of an account of the case of Thomas Hill, a Methodist minister in North Shields accused of libelling a member of his congregation, which led to trials in Newcastle and York, and became a local cause célèbre. Hill was accused of having sent letters to the fiancé of Jane Bell that cast sufficient doubt on her probity as to cause him to break off their engagement. Over the course of the trials, many witnesses spoke on Bell’s behalf, including many Methodist tradesmen; this account is differentiated through its inclusion of facsimiles of Hill’s letters, which were used to demonstrate that they were indeed the work of his hand.