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- Title:
- Minutes of the Proceedings before the Lords Committees for Privileges, On the Claim to the Title of Earl of Anglesey
- Publisher:
- N.p., Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A rare work recording the final decision upon the English estates part of "the most dramatic case ever arising under British law", memorialized in part in Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle" and featuring multiple bigamous marriages, forgery and perjury
- Condition:
- Original stabbed marbled wraps, lightly worn, a very good crisp copy, 64 pages, with the date of 1771 changed manually to 1772; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76948
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, law of heraldry, Law and Literature, criminal law, marriage
- Author:
- Saltern, George
- Title:
- Of the Antient Lawes of great Britaine. S.T.C. 21635
- Publisher:
- Printed [by Edward Allde] for Iohn Iaggard [etc.], London, 1605.
- Description:
- Only edition of the tract written by a Middle Temple barrister, appearing as the union of England and Scotland was contested, "unique in its singular focus on demonstrating the existence of a British common law tradition from the mists of antiquity"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum, the title slightly darkened with its lower margin cut close (no text affected), the Huth copy with his bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78905
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Anglo-Saxon law, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c. With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil. In Which . . . the Laws that relate to the Provision for the Poor, and to the Punishment of Felons are largely and freely examined
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.], London, 1751.
- Description:
- First edition of the novelist Henry Fielding's famed proposals for reforming English criminal law, derived from his first-hand experiences as a London magistrate, "easily the most distinguished and ambitious of Fielding's social [publications]"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 green morocco over cloth boards, gilt lettered, light browning, else a good usable copy with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79227
- Price:
- $ 425.00
- Category:
- criminal law, legal reform, capital punishment, Law and Literature, poor law
- Author:
- Gonson, John
- Title:
- The Charge of Sir John Gonson, Kt. to the Grand Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Held the Twenty fourth Day of April 1728 in Westminster Hall [etc.]. ESTC N27645
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing . . . near West Smithfield, London, 1728.
- Description:
- First edition of the first grand jury charge of Gonson, the Inner Temple barrister and "zealous prosecutor" depicted by Hogarth (twice) in "A Harlot's Progress", in satiric poetry, and--for his evangelical fervour -- by Pope in his "An Essay on Man"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, crimson morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80196
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, justices of peace, Poetry, Law and Literature, humor
- Author:
- Overbury, Thomas
- Title:
- His Wife. With Additions of New Characters, and many other Witty Conceits never before printed. The sixteenth Impression. S.T.C. 18919
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Haviland, for A. Crooke [etc.], London, 1638.
- Description:
- Overbury's sole known work, including forty seven verses patterned upon Shakespeare, indirectly praised by Ben Jonson, with later additions including one conjecturally by John Donne, all subsumed within the tragedy of Overbury's alleged murder
- Condition:
- Modern Cambridge style panelled calf, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, margins cut a bit close, else quite luscious; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80227
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- humor, marriage, Poetry, Law and Literature
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