CRIME. The Trial of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq… For a Conspiracy Against the Right Hon. Mary Eleanor Bowes, Commonly Called Countess of Strathmore. London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. First edition, folio (393 x 254mm.) Title, 63pp. (D1 creased, inner margin tear throughout.) Printed upper wrapper. String-bound. Note: Andrew Stoney-Bowes was an M.P. for Newcastle and High Sheriff of Northumberland. His scandalous and abusive behaviour to Mary Eleanor Bowes led to a trial and his imprisonment. William Thackeray used these events as the basis for his 1844 novel, ‘The Luck of Barry Lyndon’. The novel was later the source for Stanley Kubrick’s film, ‘Barry Lyndon’. – And two further works (‘A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial Between Stephens, Trustee to E. Bowes, Commonly Called Countess of Strathmore, and Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes, Esq. Her Second Husband’, second edition, 1788, 4to, and ‘The Trial in Ejectment (At Large) Between Campbell Craig, lessee of James Annesley Esq; and Others, Plaintiff; and the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Anglesey’, 1744, folio) (3).