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Title:
The Trial of John Hart, Esq. Alderman of London; for Adultery and Cruelty . . . That, among Variety of Ingenious Refinements upon Cruelty, the Alderman extinguished Mrs. Hart's Fires in the coldest Weather . . . kicked and dragged her about [etc.]
Publisher:
Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, London, 1780.
Description:
A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation
Condition:
Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife
Book No.:
W-80434
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
adultery, trials, women's law
Author:
Spender, Irving Kristol, Melvin Lasky (eds.), Stephen
Title:
Encounter Magazine [a run of approximately 400 issues from the first issue (#1) to the last issue (#427)]
Publisher:
Encounter Ltd, London, 1953-1990.
Description:
An especially long run of 400 issues of the periodical published during much of the 20th century and containing "a rich seam . . . of political and literary material", but with its reputation tarnished when its substantial CIA funding was discovered
Condition:
Original printed wraps, occasional wear, else a good clean set
Book No.:
W-80409
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
political theory, Law and Literature
Author:
Dugdale, William
Title:
Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Second edition
Publisher:
Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
Description:
The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates
Condition:
Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound
Book No.:
W-60145
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
Author:
Title:
Granta, The Magazine of New Writing. Sixty Eight non-consecutive issues from Issue 7 to Issue 147
Publisher:
Granta Books, London, 1983-2017.
Description:
A long non-consecutive run of sixty seven issues, including the issues of Young British Novelists and Authors (#s 7, 81, and 123), Young American Novelists (#s 54, 97, and 139), Young Spanish Language Novelists (#113), and New Irish Writing (#135)
Condition:
Original printed illustrated wraps in very good condition
Book No.:
W-80249
Price:
$ 340.00
Category:
Law and Literature
Author:
Dugdale, William
Title:
Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Inns of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Third edition. Wing D2490
Publisher:
Printed for Christop. Wilkinson [and two others] [etc.], London, 1680.
Description:
The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the 7 plates
Condition:
Contemporary calf, ex-library, the front board detached and the title and first leaf loose; with the armorial bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce
Book No.:
W-74934
Price:
$ 850.00
Category:
Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
Author:
Erskine, Thomas
Title:
Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
Publisher:
Annual Register, London, 1798.
Description:
A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
Condition:
Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
Book No.:
W-80391
Price:
$ 250.00
Category:
English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta
Author:
Watkins, Charles
Title:
An Enquiry into the Question, Whether the Brother of the paternal Grand-mother shall succeed to the Inheritance of the Son, in preference to the Brother of the paternal Great-Grand-mother [etc.]. Not in Eller; Lauechli 660
Publisher:
Printed for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, London, 1798.
Description:
A rare tract by the noted conveyancer exploring a recondite issue dividing the greatest minds of English law--including Bacon, Hale, and Blackstone--concluding that the great-grand-mother's brother, with his greater paternal longevity, must prevail
Condition:
?Original self-wraps, disbound, without the advertising leaf, 38 pages; holdings in one library only in North America in ESTC
Book No.:
W-80437
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
Author:
Swinburne, Henry
Title:
A Treatise of Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts: Wherein All the Questions relating to that Subject are ingeniously Debated and Resolved. Wing S6260. Quarto
Publisher:
Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock [etc.], London, 1686.
Description:
First edition of the first work on the English law of marriage, and one of Swinburne's two major works, written (in J.H. Baker's words) in "a felicitous informal style [contributing to] a reputation plac[ing] him in the ranks of the famous"
Condition:
Modern calf, morocco label gilt, very light browning, else quite attractive; Julius Rosenthal's copy with his ownership signature on the title page
Book No.:
W-80430
Price:
$ 2250.00
Category:
marriage, women's law
Author:
Orwell, George
Title:
The Complete Poetry. Compiled and presented by Dione Venables with an introduction by Peter Davison [the editor of 'The Complete Works of George Orwell']
Publisher:
Published by Finlay Publisher for The Orwell Society, London, 2015.
Description:
The long overdue gathering of the verse of George Orwell, who "scattered poetry throughout his work in every conceivable form", instructively glossed by Dione Venables, who was instrumental in the founding of The Orwell Society in 2011
Condition:
Original printed green wraps, as new, one of 500 copies of the first printing of the first edition, with the errata slip pasted in at page 57; 63 pages
Book No.:
W-78428
Price:
$ 25.00
Category:
Poetry
Author:
Cotton, Robert
Title:
An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London . . . of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several Acts in every Parliament [etc.]. Revised . . . by William Prynne. Wing C6489. Folio
Publisher:
Printed for William Leake Stationer, at the Crown [etc.], London, 1657.
Description:
First edition of one of two valuable works singled out by Holdsworth as the fruits of Prynne's scholarship in seeing published the previously unprinted public records of the Kingdom, both leading to his appointment as their Keeper in the next decade
Condition:
Early tree calf, rebacked, some embrowning, but a good copy
Book No.:
W-60146
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
Abridgements, Acts
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:
Title:
Trial of Mrs. Ann Nisbett, Wife of Walter Nisbett, Esq; of Grafton Street, Berkeley Square . . . For committing Adultery with Thomas Totty, Esq; (A Captain in the Navy, and Commander of the Majesty's Ship the Sphynx) At Doctors Commons
Publisher:
Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], London, 1783.
Description:
A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857
Condition:
Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence
Book No.:
W-80431
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
adultery, Parliament, divorce, marriage, trials
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:
Foot, Michael]
Title:
The Trial of Mussolini. Being a Verbatim Report of the First Great Trial for War Criminals held in London sometime in 1944 or 1945 by "Cassius". Sixth impression July 1944 [no copy of this impression in COPAC, two in OCLC, both in Denmark]
Publisher:
Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1943 [1944].
Description:
The factually grounded if imagined trial of Mussolini, with the testimony of witnesses, direct and cross examination, and Mussolini taking the witness stand in his own defense, with a final summing up by the judge, who leaves the verdict to us
Condition:
Original blue cloth, gilt, the spine dulled, else a good usable copy, once that of R.E. Megarry, with his ownership stamp on the front pastedown
Book No.:
W-80448
Price:
$ 150.00
Category:
Nuremberg, ITALY, trials

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