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Author:
Title:       Caution. Whereas, a great number of Young Persons having
             accustomed themselves to assemble together in this neighbourhood
             on Snnday [sic] Afternoons in a noisy and disorderly manner [etc.]
Publisher:   Lomas, Printer, Bristol, [1824?].
Description: An attractive broadside, measuring about 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches,
             sternly issuing a 'caution' to the younger generation, who will
             "be punished with utmost rigour of the Law" should they perpetuate
             their unacceptable Sunday afternoon behavior
Condition:   A little wear, but generally well preserved; blind owner's stamp
Book No.:    W-47705                Price: $     275.00
Category:    legal ephemera, criminal law

Author:      Menninger, Karl
Title:       The Crime of Punishment
Publisher:   Viking Press, New York, 1968.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-13060                Price: $      35.00
Category:    legal ephemera, criminal law, prisons

Author:      Jenks, Edward
Title:       The Book of English Law
Publisher:   John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, n.d..
Description: The promotional flyer for Professor Jenks' enduring work, the
             first page replicating its title, the second a portion of the
             Preface (invoking Pollock, Anson, Dicey, and Maitland), the third
             contents and the fourth other works and an order form
Condition:   One sheet, folded (four pages), the fore-edges a bit chipped, else
             well-preserved
Book No.:    W-74227                Price: $      15.00
Category:    English Law, legal ephemera

Author:
Title:       Bill of Sale, one sheet, dated at New York, August 2, 1822, in the
             hand of and signed by S[amuel?] Gould, recording the sale and
             payment for law books
Publisher:   New York, 1822.
Description: The bill of sale acknowledges the receipt of $5.50 for the set of
             Jacob & Walker's Chancery Reports--normally $7.00, with a $1.50
             discount for cash; docketed on the verso
Condition:   One page, folded, somewhat embrowned, but sound and well preserved
Book No.:    W-42595                Price: $     150.00
Category:    Manuscripts, legal ephemera

Author:
Title:       An Act for Taking away the Fee of Damage Cleere
Publisher:   Printed by Edward Husband and John Field [etc.], London, 1650.
Description: The broadside officially publicizing the act of the Commonwealth
             Parliament abolishing the vexatious fee of court called damage
             cleer or damna clericorum, in which court clerks had been entitled
             to an automatic 10% of all judgments
Condition:   Attractively matted; with the Commonwealth seal, black-letter
Book No.:    W-42994                Price: $     650.00
Category:    legal ephemera, courts, Interregnum

Author:
Title:       The Court . . . Silence is Requested
Publisher:   N.p., n.p., 1929?].
Description: An abstract diagram of the Court's seating arrangement, presumably
             given to visitors, depicting fourteen locations, including each of
             the justices (all named), the Clerk, Marshall, and Reporter, and
             the desks for counsel and the Attorney General
Condition:   One sheet, about 3x5, folded thrice, a bit worn, well-preserved
Book No.:    W-67494                Price: $      45.00
Category:    Supreme Court, legal ephemera

Author:
Title:       A true account of the murder of the Monk of Whitby [etc.]
Publisher:   Clark & Medd Printers, Whitby, 1814.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-47560                Price: $     250.00
Category:    12TH CENTURY, criminal law, church, legal ephemera

Author:
Title:       Three Guineas Reward
Publisher:
Description: Broadside; half sheet size
Condition:
Book No.:    W-10998                Price: $      50.00
Category:    legal ephemera

Author:
Title:       Assize Kalendar . . . of the Prisoners in the Gaols of Durham,
             Newcastle, and Morpeth, who have to take their Trials before the
             Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt. and the Hon. Sir Geo. Sowley Holroyd,
             Knt. Justices of the Court of King's Bench
Publisher:   Marshall, Printer, Newcastle, 1822.
Description: A seemingly unrecorded criminal trial calendar disclosing an
             enormous variety of alleged crimes (murder, rape, arson),
             committed by some as young as twelve years, and with an unusually
             high number of accused women, about one-third of all charged
Condition:   Broadside, untrimmed, 8 x 12 inches, once folded but quite nice
Book No.:    W-44636                Price: $     250.00
Category:    legal ephemera, criminal law

Author:      Fielding, Henry
Title:       An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robers, ec.
             With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil
Publisher:   Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.],
             London, 1751.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-18199                Price: $    1250.00
Category:    19TH CENTURY, Acts, ancient law, Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, education, legal ephemera, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, law and prostitution, roman law, Supreme Court, trials, women's law

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