A Profitable Booke Of Mr John Perkins, Fellow Of The Inner Temple. Treating Of The Lawes Of England -

Brecknock: Privately Printed 1899, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 300. (Hardcover) 203pp. Good to very good. Includes a 2-page letter signed by the author. The spine is soiled, and worn at the top and bottom. Identified on cover as: The Welsh Judges. Locale: Wales. (Law, Judges).

London: London, printed by Tho: Roycroft, for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop in Vine Court, Middle Temple, 1653., 1653. 2nd Edition . Leather. Fair. Description: (5¾ × 3¾ in): [4], 208, 193-384, [19] p. Contemporary green vellum. · Register: 8º: A^2 B-2D^8 2E^2 (I3 signed 'F3'; 2C3 signed 'Cc2'). · Condition: Book block loose from case, but the cords on the boards align with the cords on the book block; worm trail in text, affecting some letters on most pages; endpapers worn with numerous early manuscript notes; fraying to fore edge of first two and last four gatherings. · Comments: Second edition, published one year after the first. A very popular guide, reprinted and expanded numerous times down to 1724. · References: S&M 1:276(122); Wing T7B; ESTC R38210, R184820.

London: Londini Excus. per assignat. I. More armigeri. 1640., 1640. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo (5¾ × 3¾ in): [12], 579, [1] p. Early calf; "Edward Coke" lettered in gilt on spine. · Register: 8º: ¶^6 B-2O^8 2P^2. · Condition: Spine chipped at bottom. Initial blank (signed with a fleuron) present in this copy. Margin of leaf O2 torn with loss, not affecting text. · Comments: Sole edition. Although the title is in Latin, the text is in Law French. This copy contains numerous manuscript references to the first edition of Hobart's Reports, printed in quarto in 1641. (The references must be to the first edition because in some of the citations the page number is higher than 350, which is the last page of the 1650 folio second edition and all subsequent editions.) · References: S&M 1:297(23); STC 5527; ESTC S108467.

Halifax: P. Darby for John Bentley, 1761. Hardcover. See Description. Small 8vo. pp. [4], 95, [1]. With frontispiece illustration of the Halifax gibbet. Bound in full period sheep with gilt spine; rubbing and wear to extremities; head cap and front hinge are neatly restored. Several worn spots on the spine are touched up and a few gilt lines are repaired. Interior contains light age-toning and some spots of foxing. Name plate present on inside front cover with name rubbed off. This book was first published in 1708. According to Upcott the author was a physician named Dr. Samuel Midgley, "who wrote it… while in Halifax jail for debt, where he died in 1695. His poverty prevented his printing it; and John Bentley (under whose name the volume is generally known), who was Clerk of Halifax Church, claimed the hounor of it after his death." Chapter I contains a description of town customs and traditions; chapter II discusses the laws of Halifax and defends the Gibbet Law which states that… Read More

The name 'Babcock' is on fep in easily-erasable light pencilling. I have not removed it because it is a Boston name.Reverse of copyright page states 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by LUTHER S. CUSHING In the clerk's office etc. Printed by William and Reynolds of Boston in 1845 and bound by Nourse an Remick, Binders, Boston (their label inside front board) and authored by Luther Stearns CUSHING (1803-1856) Born Lunenburg, Mass. Graduated Harvard Law School 1826 as sole such graduate. 1832 Clerk of the House of Representatives; 1844 Member of State Legislature; Judge in Court of Common Pleas; and then "Reporter of Decisions. This historically-important book was given to me by my parliamentarian sister, whose name appears on small label on front board.My book is protected by strong transparent plastic with my sister's name on the plastic. This book printed by Samuel and Dickinson of Boston and published by Reynolds of Boston. It measures 6" x 4". with ribbed spine bearing a… Read More

Brecknock: Privately Printed 1899, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 300. (Hardcover) 203pp. Good to very good. Includes a 2-page letter signed by the author. The spine is soiled, and worn at the top and bottom. Identified on cover as: The Welsh Judges. Locale: Wales. (Law, Judges).

London: London, printed by Tho: Roycroft, for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop in Vine Court, Middle Temple, 1653., 1653. 2nd Edition . Leather. Fair. Description: (5¾ × 3¾ in): [4], 208, 193-384, [19] p. Contemporary green vellum. · Register: 8º: A^2 B-2D^8 2E^2 (I3 signed 'F3'; 2C3 signed 'Cc2'). · Condition: Book block loose from case, but the cords on the boards align with the cords on the book block; worm trail in text, affecting some letters on most pages; endpapers worn with numerous early manuscript notes; fraying to fore edge of first two and last four gatherings. · Comments: Second edition, published one year after the first. A very popular guide, reprinted and expanded numerous times down to 1724. · References: S&M 1:276(122); Wing T7B; ESTC R38210, R184820.

London: Londini Excus. per assignat. I. More armigeri. 1640., 1640. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo (5¾ × 3¾ in): [12], 579, [1] p. Early calf; "Edward Coke" lettered in gilt on spine. · Register: 8º: ¶^6 B-2O^8 2P^2. · Condition: Spine chipped at bottom. Initial blank (signed with a fleuron) present in this copy. Margin of leaf O2 torn with loss, not affecting text. · Comments: Sole edition. Although the title is in Latin, the text is in Law French. This copy contains numerous manuscript references to the first edition of Hobart's Reports, printed in quarto in 1641. (The references must be to the first edition because in some of the citations the page number is higher than 350, which is the last page of the 1650 folio second edition and all subsequent editions.) · References: S&M 1:297(23); STC 5527; ESTC S108467.

Halifax: P. Darby for John Bentley, 1761. Hardcover. See Description. Small 8vo. pp. [4], 95, [1]. With frontispiece illustration of the Halifax gibbet. Bound in full period sheep with gilt spine; rubbing and wear to extremities; head cap and front hinge are neatly restored. Several worn spots on the spine are touched up and a few gilt lines are repaired. Interior contains light age-toning and some spots of foxing. Name plate present on inside front cover with name rubbed off. This book was first published in 1708. According to Upcott the author was a physician named Dr. Samuel Midgley, "who wrote it… while in Halifax jail for debt, where he died in 1695. His poverty prevented his printing it; and John Bentley (under whose name the volume is generally known), who was Clerk of Halifax Church, claimed the hounor of it after his death." Chapter I contains a description of town customs and traditions; chapter II discusses the laws of Halifax and defends the Gibbet Law which states that… Read More

The name 'Babcock' is on fep in easily-erasable light pencilling. I have not removed it because it is a Boston name.Reverse of copyright page states 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by LUTHER S. CUSHING In the clerk's office etc. Printed by William and Reynolds of Boston in 1845 and bound by Nourse an Remick, Binders, Boston (their label inside front board) and authored by Luther Stearns CUSHING (1803-1856) Born Lunenburg, Mass. Graduated Harvard Law School 1826 as sole such graduate. 1832 Clerk of the House of Representatives; 1844 Member of State Legislature; Judge in Court of Common Pleas; and then "Reporter of Decisions. This historically-important book was given to me by my parliamentarian sister, whose name appears on small label on front board.My book is protected by strong transparent plastic with my sister's name on the plastic. This book printed by Samuel and Dickinson of Boston and published by Reynolds of Boston. It measures 6" x 4". with ribbed spine bearing a… Read More