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Author:
Maitland, F.W
Title:
The Deacon and the Jewess [with] Prefatory Note by Israel Abrahams, M.A. [who describes Maitland's essay as "original in substance . . . [f]or the first time it gave a clear insight into . . . the laws of heresy in Mediaeval England"]
Publisher:
Jewish Historical Society of England, London, 1908-10.
Description:
Maitland's careful, seminal analysis establishing with certainty that burning to death for heresy began in England in 1222, when a deacon left the church, committed apostasy, was circumcised, and converted to Judaism, all for his love of a Jewess
Condition:
Disbound, extracted from volume 6 of the Society's Transactions, 6+17 pages, a clean usable copy
Book No.:
W-80435
Price:
$ 125.00
Category:
Author:
Milsom, S.F.C.
Title:
Maitland [the first plate depicting the posthumous bust of Maitland by S. Nicholson Babb dated 1908 and the second the memorial tablet by Richard Kindersley dated 2000, now in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey]
Publisher:
Printed in England by Antony Rowe Ltd, Reading and Chippenham, 2001.
Description:
Professor Milsom's address given at the unveiling of Maitland's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey, the tablet reading "By slow degrees the thoughts of our forefathers their common thoughts about common things will have become thinkable once more"
Condition:
Original printed stapled wraps, well preserved, six pages and two plates, reprinted from the July 2001 issue of the Cambridge Law Journal
Book No.:
W-80432
Price:
$ 125.00
Category:
biography
Author:
Blackstone, William
Title:
Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Fourth [sic] Edition. Eller 6
Publisher:
Printed for John Exshaw [and others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1771.
Description:
A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four volumes were published during the same year
Condition:
Contemporary calf, rubbed, a few repairs, new labels; a sound set
Book No.:
W-60114
Price:
$ 1500.00
Category:
jurisprudence, English Law
Author:
Jones, N.G
Title:
Sixteenth-Century England: A View From The Trust Cases
Publisher:
Selden Society, London, 2023.
Description:
Professor Jones's Selden Society Lecture, delivered in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, July 9, 2014, in which he seeks to place trusts in the broader context of Tudor England, with emphasis in particular on religion, family provision, and finances
Condition:
Original red, printed, stapled wraps, a near fine copy, 37 pages
Book No.:
W-80444
Price:
$ 25.00
Category:
trusts and estates, 16TH CENTURY
Author:
Fisher (ed.), H.A.L.
Title:
The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England. Three Volumes [complete]
Publisher:
Logos & Co., Tokyo, 1975.
Description:
The rich harvest of Maitland's scholarship brought together by his brother-in-law, Herbert Fisher, comprising some sixty-eight papers otherwise widely scattered, and including "much of Maitland's best and most original work"
Condition:
Original cloth, gilt a very good set; the rare facsimile reissue of the 1911 Cambridge edition, no copy in OCLC or COPAC
Book No.:
W-68603
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
MEDIEVAL

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