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- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, Who suffered on Account of the late Riot in the Strand. In Which The Law regarding these Offences, and the Statute of George the First, commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katherine-street in the Strand, London, 1749.
- Description:
- First edition of Fielding's controversial work, arguing that the unfortunate Penlez, probably drunk, was rightfully hanged following his theft of linen from a brothel, itself ransacked by irate sailors; with the press marks confirming a first edition
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, "Grange Hill" in gilt on the front board, gilt edges, pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78201
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- 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
- Author:
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- A Briefe Discourse Concerning The Power of the Peeres, and Commons of Parliament, in point of Judicature. Written by a Learned Antiquerie, at the Request of a Peere, of this Realme. S.T.C. 22166. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed in the yeer, That Sea-Coale was exceeding deare, London, 1640.
- Description:
- A work variously attributed to John Selden, Robert Cotton, and another, surveying the rise of Parliament's judicial and political powers from the Anglo-Saxon centuries forward, with one allusion to ancient Athens and express reliance upon Magna Carta
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, four ink blotches and a few marks to the title, one horizontal fold, else clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80335
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, Magna Carta, ancient law, Anglo-Saxon law
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