Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794, Part I

Editorial board Iain McCalman is at the Australian National University. He is General Editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 (2000) Jon Mee is at University College, Oxford and is author of Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992).

'Those who have squinted at versions of these trials on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online will be pleased to find the facsimiles here 'digitally cleaned and enhanced'. No less welcome is Barrell and Mee's stellar editorial apparatus' The Huntingdon Library Quarterly 'a welcome new offering ... Barrell and Mee's introduction establishes the ground perfectly for curious but inexpert readers ... but readers will miss a lot if they just read the first volume's introduction, profound as it is. For these "trials" constitute a fleeting sub-genre of their own, a kind of legal-literary performance art ... [they are] essential reading.' The Wordsworth Circle

• Volume 1 Introduction, The Whole Proceedings on the Trial … against Thomas Paine (1793), The Trial of John Frost, for Seditious Words (1794), The Trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton, for Publishing a Supposed Libel (1794), Volume 2 The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1794), Vol. I, Volume 3 The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1795), Vol. II, Volume 4 The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1795), Vol. III, Volume 5 The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1795), Vol. IV