The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, A..

2019. ISBN-13: 9781584770336; ISBN-10: 1584770333. Coke, Sir Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, A Commentary upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author only, But of the Law Itself. Revised and Corrected With Additions of Notes, References, And Proper Tables, By Francis Hargrave and Charles Butler, Esqrs. Of Lincoln's Inn, Including also The Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; And an Analysis of Littleton, Written by an unknown Hand in 1658-9. By Charles Butler, Esq. The Eighteenth Edition, Corrected. Originally published: London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1823. 2 Volumes. ccxvi, [620]; [vi], [772] pp., retaining pagination of thirteenth edition. Table of consanguinity in Volume 1. Reprinted 1999, 2019 9781584770336; ISBN-10: 1584770333. Hardcover. New. $150. * Coke's Institutes are thought to be the first textbooks on the modern common law. This reprint of the eighteenth edition is among the editions that Marvin claims are "preferred to the elder editions, both on account of the convenient reference to notes and for the excellent index." Marvin 205. "If Bracton first began the codification of the common law, it was Coke who completed it.... In the Institutes,... the tradition of the common law from Bracton to Littleton, whose name Coke's Commentary made famous, firmly established itself as the basis of the constitution of the Realm." Printing and the Mind of Man 126.