Famous and Infamous Cases.

HASTINGS, Patrick.

Item Number: 136077

London: The Collector's Book Club, n.d..

Limited de Luxe Edition of Hastings’ popular work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt decorations to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated. One of one hundred numbered copies available to members of The Collector’s Book Club only, this is number 70. In very good condition.

In 1948, Hastings published his autobiography, simply titled The Autobiography of Sir Patrick Hastings, and the following year published Cases in Court, a book giving his views on 21 of his most noted cases. The same year he published Famous and Infamous Cases, a book on noted trials through history, such as those at Nuremberg.