patrick nairn (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 204 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey and red cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to edges.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Tear in spine of dust jacket.

XIV - 204 S. OLwd. m. OSch. In Englisch. - OSch. m. Läsuren u. fleckig, sonst gutes Exemplar.

200pp, bound without final ad. leaf. Neat light brown buckram. Bookplate of the L.A. Law Library. Ownership signature on title of William Lawson of Cairnm(uir) ESTC N13789. Locked into a marriage to a man she detested, Katherine Nairn, 21, decided to kill her wealthy husband Thomas Ogilvie with a cup of tea laced with arsenic just four months after their wedding. He died in agony a few hours later on 6 June 1765. The ensuing trial at Edinburgh High Court revealed a scandalous love affair between Nairn and Ogilvie's younger brother Patrick, which under the law at that time amounted to incest. Both were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Ogilvie was executed on 13th November but Nairn was spared until the following year because she was pregnant with her lover's child. A few days before she was due to be hanged she escaped in the guise of a prison officer and fled to Calais, never to be heard of again.