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London: [London] In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for Richard Sare near Gray's-Inn Gate in Holbourn. MDCCXX. [1720], 1720. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Volume 2 (of 2) only. 8vo (8 × 5 in): t-p., 537-1120, [80] p. (last leaf bookseller's ads). Contemporary calf. · Register: 8º: [pi]1 2N-4G^8 4H^4. · Condition: Edges of boards worn, spine dry and chipped, no label, back cracked; a few gatherings embrowned. · Comments: First edition. ESTC says that each volume is separately signed; however, in this issue the register seems to continue the former volume. Wood divided his Institute into four books: persons, things, crimes, and courts of justice. This volume contains the last two chapters of the second book, dealing with goods and chattels and how they may be acquired, and the books on crimes and courts of justice. The last of these fills more than half the volumes and includes discussion of the forms of… Read More

London: [London] In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer Esq;) for Richard Sare near Gray's-Inn Gate in Holborn. MDCCXXIV. [1724], 1724. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Folio (13¾ × 8¾ in): frontis., t-p., xi, 663, [36] p. (the final page an advertisement). Contemporary calf. · Register: 2º: [a]² b-c² d1 B-4P^4 4Q-4Z² [5A]1. · Condition: Joints cracked, shelf-worn, especially at corners; paper somewhat embrowned, but free of foxing. · Comments: Third edition. The only substantial introductory work in a systematic order to appear between Finch's Law and Blackstone's Commentaries. Although Blackstone praised Wood for putting the law in a regular order, he criticized his style as lacking proportion in the titles, being too contracted in some areas and too diffuse in others. · References: Johnson 207 (8 copies); Bridgman 367; Worrall 84; Marvin 743; S&M 1:38(88);… Read More

London: London: printed by W. Strahan, and M. Woodfall, law-printers to the King's most excellent Majesty. For J. Whiston, J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, W. Johnston, J. Rivington, L. Hawes, T. Longman, B. Law, P. Uriel, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, W. Owen, T. Payne, B. White, J. Johnson, T. Pote, Z. Stuart, W. Flexney, W. Nicholl, T. Lowndes, J. Robinson, T. Cadell, B. Tovey, and R. Baldwin. M.DCC.LXXII. [1772], 1772. Leather. Very Good. Description: Folio (14½ × 9¾ in): t-p., x, 657, [40] p. Contemporary calf, red morocco label. · Register: 2º-form 4º: [a]² b-c² B-8O² 8P1. · Condition: Joints cracked, chipped at head and tail, boards rubbed with some scrapes; armorial bookplate on front paste-down; light damp-stain in lower margin of early leaves. · Comments: Tenth and final edition, the first to published after Blackstone's Commentaries. In fact, it seems that the anonymous revisor mentioned in the title thought very highly of the… Read More

London: London: printed by W.B. for Richard Sare, at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn. 1721., 1721. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (8 × 5¼ in): t-p., 144, xvi, [8], 414, [10] p. (the last page contains ads). Contemporary polished calf, decorated in blind, morocco label. · Register: 8º: [pi]1 ^[pi]B-K^8 A^8 a^4 B-2D^8 2E^4. · Condition: Slight wear to head and tail of spine, but generally well-preserved; signed on the title-page "Dudley Hussey"; the preliminary treatise moderately browned and foxed. · Comments: Third edition, the last in the author's lifetime and the first to contain the "Treatise on the first principles of the law." In the main work, Wood describes the civil law on its own terms, according to the Insitutes of Justinian, and gives comparative notes on English law. The preliminary treatise is much more theoretical and synthetic. Wood was learned and industrious, but lacked literary genius; like his… Read More