NO RESERVE Campden Wonder.- Overbury (Sir Thomas) A True and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, gent...Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turkey, and there made a slave above two years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he returned to England; being, in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsely accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire, Printed for John Atkinson, [?1754] bound with [Wesley (John)] A Short Account of the School, in Kingswood, Near Bristol, Bristol, by William Pine, 1768 and [Wesley (John)] An Account of the Delivery of Thomas Cross... who was Overset in a Small Boat, Crossing the New-Passage, on the River Severn..., title closely shaved at head, by R. Hawes, [1777], together 3 works in 1 vol., occasional light soiling, bookplate to pastedown, 20th century vellum-backed cloth, 8vo.

⁂ A trio of scarce pamphlets. The first details the events of what has become known as the Campden Wonder in which a trio of servants were executed for the murder of 70 year-old man upon his disappearance, only for the man to return two years later with an outlandish tale of kidnap by pirates to explain his disappearance.

Provenance: John E. Pritchard, Bristol (bookplate).