Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Minutes of the proceedings of the court-martial held at Portsmouth : August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's ship the Bounty : with an appendix containing a full account of the real causes and circumstances of that unhappy transaction, the most material of which have hitherto been withheld from the public.
  
• Publication:London : Printed for J. Deighton, opposite Gray's-Inn, Holborn, MDCCXCIV [1794]
  
• Physical Description:[4], 79, [1] pages ; 30 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: VB807.G7 M56 1794+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in 20th-century gilt-tooled red morocco, by Elizabeth Greenhill.
  
• Notes:"The ... minutes of the trial ... were taken by myself and my clerks, being employed to give assistance before the court-martial, to William Musprat, one of the prisoners"-- Advertisement, signed: Stepn. Barney.
  "Erratum Page 1, line 2, for April, read August."--Page 79.
  Appendix (pages 59-79) written by Edward Christian, brother of Fletcher Christian.
  
• Format:Book
• References:English short title catalogue, T213897
  
• Subjects:Bligh, William, 1754-1817.
  Bounty (Ship)
  Trials (Mutiny)--England--Early works to 1800.
  Bounty Mutiny, 1789.
  Mutiny--Oceania.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1794.
  Greenhill, Elizabeth, 1907-2006--Bookbinder.
  
• Also listed under:Barney, Stephen.
  Musprat, William.
  Christian, Fletcher, 1764-1793.
  Christian, Edward, -1823.
  Deighton, J. (John), active 1786-1812, publisher.
  Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial (Bounty mutineers : 1792)