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- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Bacon, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With A Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments . . . from some Manuscript Notes of John Selden. Wing S2428
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Starkey [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The work establishing the reputation of Bacon, the half-brother of Francis Bacon, probably based on notes collected by John Selden, highly influential and "argu[ing] with unrelenting force an anti-royalist ideology of enormous political power"
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled, panelled calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed and scraped and some browning, mainly lightish, else a very good crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-77069
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes [complete] [with the "A Register of Law Publications" of 32 and 26 pages in the first and second volumes, respectively, not found in all sets]
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London, 1791-92.
- Description:
- One of two works which Holdsworth termed Hargrave's "principal service to legal history", a rich and diverse selection of forty previously unpublished tracts from his extraordinary collection ultimately purchased and deposited in the British Library
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, ex-library, with the ownership signature of Sir Robert Gifford, Baron Gifford, and the bookplate of Henry Bickersteth, Baron Langdale
- Book No.:
- W-74675
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes [complete] [with the "A Register of Law Publications" of 32 and 26 pages in the first and second volumes, respectively, not found in all sets]
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London, 1791-92.
- Description:
- One of two works which Holdsworth termed Hargrave's "principal service to legal history", a rich and diverse selection of forty previously unpublished tracts from his extraordinary collection ultimately purchased and deposited in the British Library
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, much rubbed, joints just cracking but quite firm, labels lacking, else very clean and bright; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79486
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Star Chamber, Bibliography
- Author:
- Yelverton, Henry [James Whitelocke?]
- Title:
- The Rights Of the People of England Concerning Impositions . . . With a Remonstrance presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty, by the Honorable House of Commons, in the Parliament, An. Dom. 1610. Annoque Regis Jac 7. Wing Y28/W1995D
- Publisher:
- Printed for William Leake and John Leake [etc.], London, 1679.
- Description:
- Final edition of the work which was part of (in Holdsworth's words) "the great House of Commons debate" on impositions by royal authority only, the controversial matter not resolved until the Bill of Rights clearly required Parliamentary consent
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, the top inch of the front joint cracked, some worming towards the end of the work, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79857
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Somers, John
- Title:
- A Brief History of the Succession, Collected out of the Records, and the Most Authentick Historians. Written for the Satisfaction of the Earl of H.[Halifax]. Wing S4638. Folio. [With line 5 of the title ending "and the"]
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1680.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the earliest writings of the future Lord Chancellor, vigorously defending the right of Parliament to participate in determining royal succession, "review[ing] in detail the history of the crown's descent, from earliest times"
- Condition:
- Modern light-green wraps, definite browning, a bit of marginal fraying to the first leaf, else a good copy; 19 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76888
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- His Maiesties Declaration, Touching his proceedings in the late Assemblie and Conuention of Parliament. S.T.C. 9241. Quarto [with the front blank signature "A" preceding the title]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1622.
- Description:
- James I defence of his dissolution of the Parliament of 1621, Coke having had his books and papers seized and been imprisoned in the Tower, leading "to a constitutional confrontation with the king over [the Commons] privilege of free speech"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 green morocco over marbled boards, the spine very lightly faded, light browning, the top margin cut a bit close, yet crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79536
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English constitutional law, freedom of speech
- Author:
- Title:
- A Proclamation declaring his Maiesties Pleasure concerning the dissoluing of the present Conuention of Parliament. S.T.C. 8678. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1622.
- Description:
- James I proclamation dissolving the Parliament of 1621, Coke having his books and papers seized and being imprisoned in the Tower for months, leading "to a constitutional confrontation with the king over [the Commons'] privilege of free speech"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, some lightish staining throughout, else sound and usable, printed in black letter; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79781
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Leach, John
- Title:
- The Speech of John Leach, Esq. M.P. In the Committee of the Whole House, upon the State of the Nation . . . upon the Question of Limitations to the Royal Authority in the Hands of the Regent. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Ridgway, 170, Piccadilly [etc.], London, 1811.
- Description:
- The rare edition of the historically grounded speech in which, following the madness of George III, Leach "distinguished himself in the Regency debates", reviewing from the 14th century forward the constitutional limits to be imposed upon a regency
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, occasional light marginal staining, else a very good copy, with the half-title; no copy in this country in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-76397
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- insanity, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Compare Eller 231 [citing an unseen variant of 48 pages, our copy the 44 page printing]; Laeuchli 539 [this variant]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Part of the Wilkes controversy, invoking the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, the "substantial work [which] has been credited to Jeremiah Dyson [and] Blackstone", its author now thought to be Owen Ruffhead
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, light browning, the margins cut somewhat close (no text affected), without the half title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78792
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Pleadings, Arguments, and Other Proceedings In the Court of Kings-Bench upon the Quo Warranto, Touching the Charter of the City of London; With the Judgement entred thereupon [etc.]. Wing P2528. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold [by three others], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The arguments in one of the most famous cases in English law, the "shattering judgment" (in John Baker's words) seizing London's corporate liberty into royal hands, reversed by act of parliament under William III as part of the Glorious Revolution
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 green morocco over green boards, some browning else quite sound with occasional notations and the leaf before the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79975
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- London, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Meredith, William
- Title:
- Letter to Dr. Blackstone, By the Author of the Question Stated. To which is prefixed, Dr. Blackstone's Letter to Sir William Meredith. Eller 259
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Woodfall, Charing Cross [etc.], London, 1770.
- Description:
- Part of the debate whether John Wilkes should sit in Parliament, and most embarrassing for Blackstone, accused of saying one thing in his 'Commentaries' and another as a Member of Parliament, in Ian Doolittle's words "caught leaden-footed in debate"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a very good crisp copy; with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77718
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- law of elections, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Arguments upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus, In the Court of Kings Bench. Wherein, Are learnedly discussed, not onely the severall Branches of the said Writ, but also many Authorities as well of the Common as Statute Law [etc.]. Wing A3649. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by M.F. for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1649.
- Description:
- The arguments in one of the leading cases in the history of habeas corpus, leading directly to the Petition of Right and its famous clause that "[n]o freeman was to be imprisoned or detained", closely circumscribing the King's power to impair liberty
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, gilt lettered, light browning, margins cut close (text unaffected), else well preserved with the first blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79981
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- habeas corpus, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Smith, Thomas
- Title:
- De Republica Anglorum. The maner of Governement or policie of the Realme of England, compiled by . . . Thomas Smyth Knight, Doctor of both the lawes, and one of the principal Secretaries vnto . . . King Edward . . . and Queene Elizabeth. S.T.C. 22858
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, anno Domini 1584, London, 1584.
- Description:
- Second edition of the first English treatise on comparative constitutional law, highly regarded by Maitland, who adjudged that the work "will be quoted and transcribed so long as men take any interest in the history of the English constitution"
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, a trifle browned with a trace of marginal staining, headlines occasionally just shaved, with the Ehrman bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79418
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Comparative Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Tuesday the 27th of December 1659. Resolved, &c. That on the fifth day of January next, this House will take into Consideration the Cases of all absent Members [and seven other Proclamations]. Steele 3142; 3144; 3146; 3147; 3152; 3157; and 3159
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater [imprints vary], London, 1659-60.
- Description:
- Eight rare or uncommon proclamations documenting Parliament's actions during the tumultuous months when England faced a military takeover, avoided with the restoration of Charles II and "ensur[ing] the future of parliamentary government in England"
- Condition:
- Seven broadsides, each about 8x12 inches, some browning and irregularity, several with partial tears, but all textually complete; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79345
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament
- Author:
- Staunford, William
- Title:
- An Exposicion of the kinges prerogatiue collected out of the great abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and other old writers of the lawes of Englande . . . Whereunto is annexed the Proces to the same Prerogatiue appertaining. S.T.C. 23213; Beale T491. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprynted . . . in fleet strete . . . by Rychard Tottel [etc.], London, 1567.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the first English legal treatises of substance to focus on a discrete subject area of the law, in this case the powers of the King upon such matters as marriage, wardship, idiots, lunatics, escheats and wrecks, among others
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, definite staining throughout, moreso at the end, two leaves repaired with loss; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-59198
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Petit-Dutaillis, Charles
- Title:
- Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History, Down to the Great Charter. Second edition
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1911.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, a bit worn and stained, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-63497
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Fortescue, John
- Title:
- The Difference Between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy; As it more particularly regards the English Constitution . . . Faithfully Transcribed from the MS. Copy in the Bodleian Library . . . Published with some Remarks by John Fortescue-Aland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Bowyer in White-Fryars, for E. Parker [etc.], London, 1714.
- Description:
- First edition of "the earliest constitutional treatise written in the English language", one of Fortescue's major works, written by him in the 1470's, its modern edition (by Charles Plummer) published under the title 'The Governance of England'
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled, panelled, Cambridge style calf, the joints cracked and repaired, new endpapers, else clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79331
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- 15TH CENTURY, Comparative Law, English constitutional law, Parliament, political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Caroli . . . At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 18. day of Iune, Anno Dom. 1625. in the first yeere of the Reigne of our most gracious Souereigne Lord, Charles . . . And there continued [etc.]. S.T.C. 9509. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Barker, & John Bill [etc.], London, 1630 (1629).
- Description:
- One of only two contemporary printings of the legislation of Charles' first Parliament, its dissolution leading to the Petition of Right, "terminat[ing] the opening scene in the long tragedy that ended twenty-four years later upon the scaffold"
- Condition:
- Modern boards, some browning and staining, without the two subsidies acts and the first blank, else usable with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79475
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Not separately listed in Eller, who also does not list the London variant printings of 1769; compare Eller 231. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Blackstone's passionate invocation of the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, and his principal contribution to English constitutional law outside the Commentaries; not seen by Eller and surprisingly uncommon
- Condition:
- Modern calf, very light browning, a good, wide-margined copy, with the half-title; 44 pages
- Book No.:
- W-67958
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of England. Third Edition. Eller 240; Lauechli 553
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1771.
- Description:
- The most complete edition of Blackstone's legal essays, said in part to be responsible for his appointment as Solicitor General, and including his famed essay on (and text of) Magna Carta, "of the first importance for the constitutional lawyer"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the boards rubbed and marked, the first and last blanks somewhat foxed and dusty, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78133
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Family Law, jurisprudence, marriage, Magna Carta, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Priviledges and Practice of Parliaments in England. Collected out of the Common Lawes of this Land. Seene and allowed by the Learned in the Lawes. Commended To the High Court of Parliament now Assembled. S.T.C. 7749 ["Tranquillitie" setting]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcett] 1628, London, 1628.
- Description:
- First printing (one of two settings) of a tract which appeared during transforming events over much of the course of the century, followed by printings in 1640, 1641 and 1680; with comparisons and contrasts drawn from France and Germany
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf gilt lettered, some browning, a trace of marginal worming, without the first blank, the top margin cut close, sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79987
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Parliament, FRANCE, GERMANY, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Bacon, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England . . . From the first Times till the Reigne of Edward the third [with] A Continuation . . . Until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. ?ESTC R473664 [not R8530 or R10585]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Matthew Walbancke at Grays-Inn-Gate [imprints vary], London, 1647 & 1651.
- Description:
- A possibly unique printing of the work establishing the reputation of Bacon, Francis Bacon's half-brother, the constitutional history of England whose early publication was suppressed, leading to the still disputed claim of Selden's association
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, the rear joint cracking but firm, else a good copy, with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78788
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Brief Deductions Relative to the Aid and Supply of the Executive Power, According to the Law of England. In Cases of Infancy, Delirium, or Other Incapacity of the King. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Debrett, London, 1788.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards; a very nice, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-47595
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- insanity, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Primo Henrici Octaui . . . at his parliament holden at Westminster . . . hath do to be ordeined, made, and enacted certaine statutes and ordinaunces in maner & fourme folowyng [1510]. S.T.C. 9360.5 [including this copy]; Beale S114
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Powell, London, 1563?.
- Description:
- The acts of Henry VIII's first parliament, strengthening the rule of law by condemning the actions of Empson and Dudley in Henry VII's reign [c.12] and repealing the trial of non-capital statutory offences upon information without indictment [c.6]
- Condition:
- Modern unlettered cloth, rubbed and somewhat worn, a good copy with ample margins and the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79308
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, criminal law, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- A Subsidy Granted to the King, of Tonnage, and Poundage, and other Sums of Money, payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported. Together with a Book of Rates [with] Rules and Instructions for the Tare of Goods & Merchandize [etc.]. Wing E2315 and E923A
- Publisher:
- Printed by Chr. Barker [and] Printed Anno Dom., London, 1661 & 1663.
- Description:
- Two rare works marking the evolution of one of the foremost constitutional debates of the seventeenth century, as Parliament granted Charles II these two important subsidies for his life, in contrast to the much circumscribed grants formerly made
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, rubbed, rebacked, portions of the original spine laid down, the Taussig copy; three and two copies in ESTC respectively
- Book No.:
- W-78110
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- international law, maritime law, economics, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Noy, William
- Title:
- A Treatise of the Rights of the Crown. Declaring, How the King of England may Support and Increase his Annual Revenues. Collected out of the Records in the Tower, the Parliament Rolls, and Close Petitions, Anno X Car. Regis. 1634 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by B. Lintott and E. Curll in Fleetstreet, London, 1715.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Noy's "thoughtful and important works on the law", written while he was Charles I's attorney general, yet leading to his great unpopularity, as he sought to increase royal revenues via forest fines, monopolies, and shipmoney
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, lightly rubbed, else especially clean and crisp, with both the Lintot and the Curll advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79715
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Natural Resources, Anti-trust
- Author:
- Trusler, John
- Title:
- A Summary of the Constitutional Law of England, Being an Abridgement of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. Not in Eller; Laeuchli 123
- Publisher:
- W. Sleater, No. 28, and W. Colles, No. 17, Dame-street, Dublin, 1790.
- Description:
- The only Irish edition of the first abridgment of Blackstone, the earliest of three abridgments to appear in the 18th century, designed "to make Blackstone's Commentaries useful to all Classes of People"; uncommon, three copies in ESTC in the USA
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 leather over boards, somewhat rubbed and chafed, some browning, but sound, with the advertising leaf preceding the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78935
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King. A Proclamation declaring His Maiesties Royall Grace and Pleasure, to confirme to His Subiects their defectiue Estates in their Lands and Possessions, by His Commission lately renewed and enlarged to that purpose. S.T.C. 9043; cf. Steele 1703
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1635.
- Description:
- A rare printing of the final effort by Charles I, seemingly related to the Shipmoney crisis and the need for royal revenue, establishing a commission which, for fees paid, would cure defective titles; four copies in ESTC, none in North America
- Condition:
- Broadside measuring about 11x14 inches, browned, the bottom margin defective with loss to the imprint, else complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79503
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Real Property, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King and Queen. A Proclamation . . . That all Persons being Protestants . . . in the Offices of Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace [and other offices] shall hold themselves continued in the said Offices [etc.]. Wing W2522; Steele I, 3964
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Starkey and Awnsham Churchill [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The proclamation given on Feb 14 1689, two days after the Houses of Parliament had agreed on a Declaration of Rights and the day following William and Mary being offered and accepting the crown--as "the first stage of the Revolution was complete"
- Condition:
- Broadside about 8x11 inches, one vertical fold, light browning, else well preserved, the variant with the factotum containing flowers; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79487
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Religion, sheriffs, justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Peeres now assembled in Parliament. The Humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and Prelates now called by His Majesties Writts to attend the Parliament [etc.]. Not in Wing; ESTC R226217
- Publisher:
- Printed for Joseph Hunscutt, London, 1642.
- Description:
- The rare broadside whose contents formed the basis of high treason charges brought against the bishops for "subvert[ing] the fundamental laws of the kingdom", thereby contributing in part to the outbreak of England's civil war; one copy in ESTC
- Condition:
- Broadside measuring about 9 1/2 x 13 inches, lightly browned, some chips and tears, top left margin trimmed, but legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79671
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Broadside, legal ephemera, Ecclesiastical Law, Parliament, English constitutional law, criminal law
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Eller 231 [citing the University of Chicago Library copy of 48 pages, as here]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Blackstone's passionate invocation of the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, and his principal contribution to English constitutional law outside the Commentaries; not seen by Eller and surprisingly uncommon
- Condition:
- Modern marbled stabbed wraps, light browning, the half-title a bit dusty, else a good, generously margined copy, 48 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77790
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae Septimo [through] Anno Regni Gulielmi XII and XIII [etc.] Six Volumes. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, London, 1696-1701.
- Description:
- A substantial collection of the legislation of the parliaments of William III, including significant legislation on the Bank of England, coinage, the Poor Law, and, most importantly, the Act of Settlement, complementing the English Bill of Rights
- Condition:
- Five of the six volumes in contemporary calf, the sixth in modern 1/4 calf, a few joints just cracking, but sturdy and usable; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78761
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Parliament, Acts, banks, poor law, legal reform, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage [with] An Act For continuing the Excise 1660 [with] An Act For the present Nonimnating of Commissioners of Sewers [with] The Rates of Merchandise . . . Subsidy of Tonnage, Subsidy of Poundage [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [imprints vary], London, 1660.
- Description:
- Three acts and a related work principally bearing upon a major constitutional debate of the seventeenth century, as Parliament granted Charles II two important subsidies for his life, two of the three acts located in one copy only in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled panelled calf, gilt, rebacked, bearing the Royal arms and manuscript paper label ("Inner 02-13"); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78814
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, economics, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Egerton, Thomas, Lord Ellesmere
- Title:
- The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England, in the Eschequer Chamber, touching the Post-nati. S.T.C. 7540. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1609.
- Description:
- Egerton's argument as Lord Chancellor in Calvin's Case, recently described as "a lengthy study of English law and history . . . published with the encouragement of King James", likely his most important work, and the only one published in his life
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, lightly faded, light browning, else very crisp with both first and last blanks with their marginal rules; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79428
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, international law, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects, March 15th 1671,/2. Published by the Advice of His Privy Council. Wing C2990; ESTC R206895. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1672.
- Description:
- The Declaration in which Charles II sought to extend religious liberty to nonconformists and Roman Catholics, Parliament in 1673 forcing him to withdraw it, then enacting the first Test Act requiring those in public service to take Anglican communion
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, light browning, with ample untrimmed margins, one horizontal fold, housed in a modern buckram folder; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80105
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Religion, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Filmer, Robert
- Title:
- The Free-holders Grand Inquest, Touching Our Sovereign Lord the King and His Parliament. Wing F912 [C3v line 2 "elder"]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed in the three and twentieth year of . . . King Charles, London, 1648.
- Description:
- First edition of the first published political work now ascribed by most scholars to Filmer, "a royalist survey of the history of English law and constitution", citing as authorities Bracton, Glanvill, Ellesmere, and (especially) Coke and Selden
- Condition:
- Modern mottled 1/4 calf over marbled boards, the spine double gilt ruled and lettered, very clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80144
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Cotton, Robert
- Title:
- The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England . . . Wherin is manifested the customary uses of the Kings of England . . . to call their Peeres and Barons . . . to give their juditious advice [etc.]. Wing C6492. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for Tho. Bankes, London, 1642.
- Description:
- The tract by "Selden's staunchest friend", whose unparalleled library proved essential to the intellectual and political history of James I's reign, demonstrating both his own learning and Parliament's consultative role since the reign of Henry I
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, black morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, light browning, else well preserved and quite crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80195
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament
- Author:
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Title:
- The Book of Fallacies: From Unfinished Papers of Jeremy Bentham. By a Friend [Peregrine Bingham the younger, with the assistance of John Stuart Mill and Francis Place]
- Publisher:
- Published by John and H.L. Hunt . . . Covent Garden, London, 1824.
- Description:
- Only early English edition expanding upon Etienne Dumont's French edition of 1816, "the beginning [in England] of a concerted effort on the part of the philosophic radicals to bring about the reformation of politics" and still of modern utility
- Condition:
- Contemporary elaborately blind decorated calf, lightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, pastedowns, and edges, handsome and quite fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80207
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law, political theory, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Jenkins, David
- Title:
- The Works Of the Eminemt and Learned Judge Jenkins upon Divers Statutes Concerning the King's Prerogative and the Liberty of the Subject. Now Reprinted from the Original Authentick Copy, Written and Published by himself, when Prisoner in Newgate. Wing J579
- Publisher:
- Printed by Samuel Roycroft, for Samuel Heyrick . . . in Holborne, London, 1681.
- Description:
- The principal collection of Jenkins' political and constitutional theory, almost all written while he was imprisoned during the Interregnum, ably defending the King in Parliament, and both reflecting Coke and anticipating the Glorious Revolution
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, rebacked, neat tear in one leaf [D3], else quite clean with good margins and the frontispiece; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80278
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, MEDIEVAL, WALES, English Commonwealth, Glorious Revolution
- Author:
- Jones, William
- Title:
- An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots. With a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence . . . To which is now added A Speech on the Nomination of Candidates to represent the County of Middlesex, 9th Sept. 1780, &c. Second Edition. ESTC T69326
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Dilly, in The Poultry, London, 1782.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of Jones' first legal and political polemic, arising out of the Gordon Riots, invoking the spirit of Selden, Locke and Milton in his proposals to avoid martial law and defend the realm civilly via a version of the posse comitatus
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, light browning, without the half title, else well preserved with the margins untrimmed; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80256
- Price:
- $ 375.00
- Category:
- military law, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Burke, Richard
- Title:
- A Charge Delivered to the Grand-Jury, at a Session of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, For the City, and County of the City of Bristol, Held at the Guildhall there, On Saturday the 6yh of April, 1793 [etc.] [no copy in a law library in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Rudhall:-- and sold by J. Norton [etc.], Bristol and London, 1793.
- Description:
- Sole, rare edition of the charge by the Lincoln's Inn barrister and brother of Edmund Burke, its printing due to the latter's contribution, "a stinging contrast between the proclaimed goals of the French revolutionaries and the contrary results"
- Condition:
- Modern stabbed marbled wraps, a small hole in one leaf and with the repaired half title (legibility preserved), else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80254
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, English constitutional law, obscenity, FRANCE
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