Hastings. Debates...Inscribed and Trial Ticket, 1797 & 1795

Hastings (Warren)

Debates in the House of Lords on the Evidence Delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings..., 1797.
Presentation copy from Warren Hastings to his god-daughter, Mrs Marian Barton, Daylesford House, 5 July 1807 signed on half title, three corrections to the printed text in Warren Hastings' hand, lacking 3F2 (3S2 supplied from another copy bound in its place), full contemporary straight grained morocco, gilt, silk endpapers, a.e.g., slightly rubbed, bookplates of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt., A.Edward Newton and Arthur A.Houghton, and a further Als from a Devereux C. Johnson to Aughton laid-in, 1797, together with an Admissions Ticket to the 109th day of Warren Hastings's trial; uncancelled, thus presumably unused tipped into purpose bound album with a portrait of Hastings, half blue morocco, lettered on spine, bookplates of A.Edward Newton and Arthur A.Houghton , 25 April 1795, lge & sm. 4to. (2)

***Warren Hastings's trial for corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration lasted for 145 days. He was acquitted, but the case cost him £70,000 and ruined him financially. The East India Company granted him a pension and he lived for the rest of his life at Daylesford, Gloucestershire.