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First Edition. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1838. State Trials, In Verse Moile, Nicholas Thirning, Pseudonym. [Bliss, Henry (1797-1873)]. State Trials: Specimen of a New Edition. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1838. xxix, [3], 402 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Recent cloth, gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, cloth hinges. Light soiling to exterior, light toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, gift inscription dated 1849 to upper outside corner of half-title, brief pencil annotation (identifying author) to title page. $350. * First edition. Accounts of the trials of Anne Ayliffe for heresy, Sir William Stanley for high treason and Mary Queen of Scots in rhyming verse. An extensive "Notes" section follows the three lengthy poems. "Nicholas Thirning Moile" was the pseudonym of Henry Bliss, a Canadian lawyer and author who published several historical works written in verse using the Moile pseudonym in addition to those under his own name. A second and final edition of State Trials appeared in 1842. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:245. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1838. (illustratore).…