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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench..
by Andrews, George
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1791. Dublin: Printed for Henry Watts, 1791. 2nd ed.. Dublin: Printed for Henry Watts, 1791. 2nd ed. "Very Much Esteemed by the Profession" Andrews, George. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, In the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of King George the Second. With Notes and Referenced Down to Michaelmas Term, 31. Geo. 3. And an Appendix Containing Some Additional Cases Not Before Published. Dublin: Printed for Henry Watts, Law-Book-Seller, 1791. xiii, [15], 397 (i.e. 487, star-paged), xiv, [42] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffs to boards, front board separated but secured by cords, chipping to head of spine, corners bumped and lightly worn, light foxing to edges of text block, armorial bookplate (of John Clarke Stoughton) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, very small faint stains to margins of a few pages, clean tear to fore-edge of leaf Ee3 (*P 343) affecting side-note without loss to legibility, brief annotation to one page of unnumbered table at rear. $500. * Second edition, one of three Dublin issues identified by the ESTC. Covering the years 1738-1740, this set of reports was, to quote Wallace, "very much esteemed by the profession in general." Marvin notes that "Andrews has usually given a fuller and more satisfactory report of these cases than is found in reports of the same period." The first edition was published in London in 1754 and the final edition in London in 1792. Wallace, The Reporters 440. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 61. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) T176096.
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- Title
- Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench..
- Author
- Andrews, George
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- Dublin: Printed for Henry Watts, 1791. 2nd ed.
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- Date Published
- 1791
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