A brief narrative of the case and trial of John Peter Zenger, printer of The New York Weekly Journal / by James Alexander ; [edited by Stanley Nider Katz].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, James, 1691-1756.

Contributor:

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746, defendant.

Katz, Stanley Nider.

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Bianchi, Daniel Berkeley.

New York (Colony). Supreme Court of Judicature.

Series:

Notable trials library

John Harvard library

The notable trials library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746--Trials, litigation, etc.

Zenger, John Peter.

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.

New-York weekly journal.

Freedom of the press--New York (State)--New York.

Freedom of the press.

Trials (Seditious libel)--New York (State)--New York.

Trials (Seditious libel).

Seditious libel--New York (State)--New York.

Seditious libel.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 238 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Special edition.

Other Title:

Case and trial of John Peter Zenger

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : The Notable Trials Library [Division of Gryphon Editions], [©1989]

Contents:

A brief naartive of the case and trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of The New York Weekly Journal

Appendix A. Selections from Zenger's press, 1734

Appendix B. Preparations for the trial, 1735

Appendix C. The controversy continued : two essays of 1737.

Notes:

Trial in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York in 1735 for the offense of printing and publishing a libel against the government.

"This edition published by special arrnagement with the permission of Harvard University Press."

"This special edition of ... has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library by Arcata Graphics/Kingsport. The introduction was written for this edition by Alan M. Dershowitz ... Film was prepared from the first edition of 1963 courtesy of the library of Roy M. Mersky, Esq., J. D., M. A. L. S., Hyder Centennial Professor of Law and Director of Research at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. New type matter was composed by P&M Typesetting, Inc., in Garamond. The text paper was especially made for this edition by P. H. Glatfelter Company. The volume has been quarter-bound in genuine leather by Arcata Graphics/Sherwood. Endleaves are a specially commissioned original design of Richard J. Wolfe. Edges are gilded; the spine is stamped in 22-karat gold. Cover stampings and design of the edition by Daniel B. Binahci and Selma Ordewer."--Colophon.

Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©1963. (The John Harvard library).

Includes bibliographical references ("Notes": pages 205-232) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has red ribbon bookmark.

OCLC:

22875503