The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell

This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trial’s significance. By consolidating all accounts of the trial, scholars are able to consult and compare these accounts in a readily accessible volume.

• Presents critical editions of several manuscripts relating to this celebrated ‘state trial’
• Demonstrates that the often cited and printed account of the trial by Jacob Tonson was incomplete and often regarded by contemporaries as a partisan production
• Extensively illustrated with rare prints and drawings - most existing in only one copy and never before reproduced
• Documents the intense interest of contemporary readers in the meaning of the trial and presents transcripts and illustrations of their annotations
• Allow scholars to consult and compare the varying accounts of the trial in a readily accessible volume