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Author:
Phelps, Arthur Warren
Title:
Handbook of Virginia Rules of Equity Practice and Procedure
Publisher:
Michie Company, Charlottesville, 1961.
Description:
With the 1972 Cumulative Supplement appended
Condition:
Black cloth, a bit cocked and worn, but sound
Book No.:
W-30266
Price:
$ 25.00
Category:
equity, Procedure
book #77483
Author:
Gresley, Richard Newcombe
Title:
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity. Cohen 5069
Publisher:
P.H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law Booksellers [etc.], Philadelphia, 1837.
Description:
First American edition of the first treatise devoted exclusively to the law of evidence in the courts of equity, greatly different from the law of evidence in the common law courts, to remain so until the reforms of the 1873 Judicature Act
Condition:
Original sheep, crimson morocco, gilt, rubbed and light browning, but a very good copy
Book No.:
W-77483
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
Evidence, equity
book #78799
Author:
Gilbert, Geoffrey
Title:
The History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery. In which is introduced, An Account of the Institution and various Regulations of the said Court; Shewing likewise, The ancient and present Practice thereof in an easy and familiar Method [etc.]
Publisher:
Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for J. Worrall [etc.], London, 1758.
Description:
First London edition of the work which Holdsworth singled out (along with John Mitford's) as "distinctly superior [and of] a greater importance in the eighteenth-century literature of equity", with much on equity's substance and on proposed reforms
Condition:
Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, quite clean and with ample margins and the advertising leaf preceding the title; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-78799
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
equity
book #79902
Author:
Egerton, Thomas, Lord Ellesmere
Title:
The Priviledges and Prerogatives of the High Court of Chancery. Written by the Right Honovrable Thomas Lord Elsmere, late Lord Chancellour of England. Wing E540. Quarto
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Sheapheard, London, 1641.
Description:
Sole edition of Ellesmere's influential work composed in the summer of 1615, "full of learning and reason", achieving the supremacy of Chancery and its decrees and a major part of the effort leading to Coke's dismissal as Lord Chief Justice in 1616
Condition:
Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, green morocco label, gilt, some light browning and foxing, else quite crisp; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79902
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
equity, Magna Carta
 
Author:
Reeve, Tapping
Title:
The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
Publisher:
Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
Description:
First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
Condition:
Book No.:
W-55365
Price:
$ 850.00
Category:
women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
book #77041
Author:
Title:
Facts and Suggestions Respecting the Masters' Offices [in the Court of Chancery]
Publisher:
V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1841.
Description:
A rare tract written during the decades-long debate over the reform of the court of chancery, including (as here) the role to be played by the court's masters, whose offices were ultimately abolished in 1852; two copies in OCLC in North America
Condition:
Original light-green printed wraps, disbound, the rear wrap lacking, else clean, 46 pages; presentation copy to Hastings Russell
Book No.:
W-77041
Price:
$ 250.00
Category:
equity, legal reform
book #79526
Author:
Brown, William
Title:
The Clerks Tutor in Chancery Giving true Directions by Authentick Precedents, How to draw Affidavits [and other instruments] as are now in use in that High and Honourable Court. To which is prefixt An Introduction [to] that Court [etc.]. Third Edition
Publisher:
Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Ed. Atkins [etc.], London, 1705.
Description:
The final (and only eighteenth century) edition of one of Brown's many works, all practical, complementing his principal treatise on Chancery, the latter approved by Holdsworth as a work which "gives a good deal of information", as does this work
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf over cloth boards, black morocco label gilt, some browning, else quite sound with good margins; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79526
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
equity, Forms & Form Books
book #76324
Author:
Brown, Josiah
Title:
A New Abridgment of Cases in Equity, and of Such Cases at Law, as relate to Equitable Subjects; from 1735, to the Present Time. Volume I [all published]. Cowley 286. Quarto
Publisher:
Printed (for the Author) by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1793.
Description:
Only edition of a rare work, the penultimate attempt to abridge all matters equitable, to have been enormously extensive, cut short by Brown's death and extending only through the letter "A"; this copy with an index found in no copy located online
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, ex-Middle Temple Library, light foxing and browning, else well-preserved; two copies in ESTC, neither in the USA
Book No.:
W-76324
Price:
$ 1500.00
Category:
equity, Abridgements
book #49579
Author:
Reeve, Tapping
Title:
The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
Publisher:
Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
Description:
First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
Condition:
Contemporary calf, worn, some staining, well rebacked; sound
Book No.:
W-49579
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
book #78274
Author:
Ballow, Henry
Title:
A Treatise of Equity. Folio
Publisher:
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [for two others], London, 1737.
Description:
First edition of the first systematic work upon modern equity and "the first coherent English treatise on contract" in John Baker's words; it was, Johnson told Boswell, "chiefly from Mr. Ballow" that the Doctor had learned what law he knew
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, some lightish foxing and browning, else well-preserved, with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-78274
Price:
$ 1500.00
Category:
equity
book #79943
Author:
Philipot, John
Title:
The Catalogue of the Chancellors of England, The Lord Keepers of the Great Seale; and the Lord Treasurers of England. With a Collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolles. S.T.C. 19846. Quarto
Publisher:
Printed at London by Tho. Cotes [etc.], London, 1636.
Description:
Only edition of the first effort exclusively devoted to recording England's Lord Chancellors and related officials, anticipating Dugdale and Cooke, and beginning with the Lord Chancellor serving under King Ethelbald in the early eighth century
Condition:
Modern 3/4 calf over paper boards, the title a bit spotted, else very clean, with the coat of arms on A4v but not that on N1r; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79943
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
Bench and Bar, equity
book #78677
Author:
St. German, Christopher
Title:
Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia. S.T.C. 21559; Beale T462 [with the title page foliated and C1.8 a cancel]
Publisher:
Impressum . . . Per Iohannem Rastell [etc.], London, 1528.
Description:
First edition of the first dialogue of the first classic of English equity, called by Samuel Thorne "a most important book for the historian of English law" and recently described as "a brilliant . . . attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
Condition:
Later vellum, rubbed, lacking six leaves and, if called for, the two final errata leaves, a few repairs and chips, else quite sound; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-78677
Price:
$ 6000.00
Category:
equity
book #76750
Author:
Gray, John
Title:
The Country-Solicitor's Practice in the High Court of Chancery . . . the Crown Office of the Court of King's Bench . . .also the Practice on Issuing a Country Fiat in Bankruptcy . . . and the Practice as to the Acknowledgment of Deeds by Married Women [etc.]
Publisher:
Edward Lumley, 56, Chancery Lane, London, 1837.
Description:
The rare first edition of Gray's trenchant work which, with his "Country-Attorney's Practice", went through several editions, Gray of fame also as the treasury solicitor whose office prosecuted the Tichborne claimant; no copy in OCLC, two in COPAC
Condition:
Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, quite rubbed, signature excised from title (no text affected), an occasional notation, else a good clean copy
Book No.:
W-76750
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, bankruptcy, women's law, Bill of Rights, criminal law
book #74797
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher
Title:
Two Dialogues in English, between a doctour of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England, of the Grounds of the said Laws, and of Conscience. Wing S317
Publisher:
Printed by John Streater, Eliz. Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1673.
Description:
A late 17th century edition of the first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy and natural law written in England, "a brilliant, comprehensive and intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
Condition:
Contemporary unlettered sheep, rubbed, spine ends chipped and a bit wormed, else quite a clean fresh and unsophisticated copy
Book No.:
W-74797
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity
book #75447
Author:
Jeremy, George
Title:
A Treatise on the Equity Jurisdiction of the High Court of Chancery
Publisher:
J. & W.T. Clarke, Law Booksellers . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1828.
Description:
First (and only English) edition of the work characterized by Holdsworth as "an ably written book", written by the Lincoln Inn's barrister who analyzes the court by type of jurisdiction--exclusive (with much on trusts), assistant, and concurrent
Condition:
Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked, ex-library, front joint just cracking but holding, yet a clean usable copy
Book No.:
W-75447
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, trusts and estates
book #71513
Author:
Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Title:
Principles of Equity. Corrected and Enlarged in a Second Edition. Folio. Sowerby 1717
Publisher:
Printed for A. Millar . . . and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1767.
Description:
The first work devoted exclusively to equity in Scotland, "probably Kames's most important contribution to legal theory" in Professor Walker's words, praised by Jefferson (who had this and two other editions), Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Mansfield
Condition:
Modern 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, some browning and staining, else a good copy
Book No.:
W-71513
Price:
$ 1500.00
Category:
equity, SCOTLAND
book #52333
Author:
Campbell, John Lord
Title:
The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. Eight Volumes
Publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1846-69.
Description:
The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language"; with the eighth index volume, printed in 1869, in a variant binding
Condition:
3/4 crimson morocco, gilt, Law Society prize binding; sound
Book No.:
W-52333
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
equity, biography
book #71543
Author:
Cooksey, Richard
Title:
Essay on the Life and Character of John Lord Somers . . . Also Sketches of an Essay on the Life and Character of Philip Earl of Hardwicke [etc.]
Publisher:
Printed by J. Holl; (for the author.) And sold by J. Bew [etc.], Worcester, 1791.
Description:
A principal contemporary account (the only I can locate in book form) of John Somers and Philip Yorke, two of England's pre-eminent early modern lawyers, a rich mix of contributions by Cooksey, Defoe, Walpole, and Jeremiah Bentham, among many others
Condition:
Later calf, gilt, quite rubbed, label lacking, title trimmed not affecting text, some foxing, ex-library, else (and despite this litany) a good copy
Book No.:
W-71543
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, biography
 
Author:
Bispham, Geo. Tucker
Title:
The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered in Courts of Chancery. Second Edition
Publisher:
Kay & Brother, 17 and 19 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, 1878.
Description:
An early edition of Bispham's much published treatise, recommended by Roscoe Pound as "an outline of equity as administerin the United States the student may be referred to [this work]", to reach an eleventh edition in 1931
Condition:
Original sheep, rubbed, joints just cracking but quite firm, a clean usable copy
Book No.:
W-79838
Price:
$ 65.00
Category:
equity
book #79837
Author:
Parkes, Joseph
Title:
A History of the Court of Chancery; With Practical Remarks on the Recent Commission, Report, and Evidence, and on the Means of Improving the Administration of Justice in the English Courts of Equity
Publisher:
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1828.
Description:
Only edition of a major contribution to Chancery reform, in Holdsworth's words "the first detailed history of the court [and] a work of considerable merit", written by a Benthamite disciple called "one of the cleverest men [Lord Cobden] had ever met"
Condition:
Contemporary calf, rubbed, label chipped, front joint beginning to crack but holding, with a folding errata and folding table not noted in OCLC
Book No.:
W-79837
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
equity, legal reform
book #52126
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher]
Title:
The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England
Publisher:
Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire, London], 1638.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:
W-52126
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY
book #60329
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher]
Title:
The Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae et de conscientia [etc.]. S.T.C. 21560
Publisher:
In aedibus Thomae Wight, London, 1604.
Description:
The second edition in Latin, with Bale's biographical account and St. Germain's will prefacing the text
Condition:
Modern calf, some embrowning, well-margined; a good copy
Book No.:
W-60329
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY
 
Author:
Reeve, Tapping
Title:
The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
Publisher:
Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
Description:
First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
Condition:
Book No.:
W-58175
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
book #60035
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher]
Title:
Doctor and Student: or Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England
Publisher:
Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1721.
Description:
An early 18th century edition of the first classic of English equity, called by Professor Thorne "a most important book for the historian of English law" and recently described as "a brilliant . . . attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
Condition:
Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, but a clean copy
Book No.:
W-60035
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, philosophy of law
book #69059
Author:
Campbell, John Lord
Title:
The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. New Edition, Edited by John Allan Mallory [etc.]. Ten Volumes
Publisher:
Estes & Lauriat, Opposite Old South, Boston, 1870's?].
Description:
The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language", beginning with the Anglo-Saxon chancellors and continuing through the 19th century
Condition:
Brown cloth, gilt, worn, some hinges cracked; a good working set
Book No.:
W-69059
Price:
$ 250.00
Category:
equity, biography
book #79324
Author:
Ashe, Thomas
Title:
Epieikeia: Et Table generall a les Annales del Ley, per quel facilment troueres touts les cases contenus in yceux; queux concerne le exposition des Statutes per Equitie [etc.]. S.T.C. 840
Publisher:
Printed for the Societie of the Stationers, London, 1609.
Description:
Only edition of Ashe's much praised work, its introduction [in English] "a highly intelligent discourse on the nature of equity in English law", capturing from the year books and reported cases instances in which statutes have been extended equitably
Condition:
Modern dark calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, red edges, three circular library stamps, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79324
Price:
$ 1750.00
Category:
equity, Year Books, reports of cases
book #74058
Author:
Title:
Judicial Appointments. A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor [etc.]
Publisher:
Bosworth & Harrison, 215, Regent Street, London, 1857.
Description:
A rare reformist tract with a decidedly populist slant, proposing that the judges of the county courts (then established for some ten years) were a fertile source for appointment to the central courts at Westminster; no copy in COPAC, OCLC or RLIN
Condition:
Disbound, the stitching loose, a just usable copy; 16 pages
Book No.:
W-74058
Price:
$ 250.00
Category:
equity, courts
book #73489
Author:
Reeve, Tapping
Title:
The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
Publisher:
Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
Description:
First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
Condition:
Contemporary calf, very worn, some browning; a just usable copy
Book No.:
W-73489
Price:
$ 350.00
Category:
women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
book #76986
Author:
Langdale, Henry Bickersteth, Baron
Title:
Substance of a Speech Delivered by the Rt. Hon. Henry Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls . . . on the Motion Made by the Lord Chancellor for the Second Reading of the Bill for the Better Administration of Justice in the High Court of Chancery
Publisher:
T. and W. Boone, 29, New Bond Street, London, 1836.
Description:
The prophetic speech of Langdale, a prime example of his instrumental, lifelong efforts to reform Chancery, proposing that the judicial and political responsibilities of the Lord Chancellor be separated, a goal achieved only within the past decade
Condition:
Modern light-blue wraps, the title and last leaf somewhat stained, ex-library, else a good copy; 62 pages
Book No.:
W-76986
Price:
$ 350.00
Category:
equity, legal reform
book #79150
Author:
Brown, William
Title:
The Clerk's Tutor in Chancery; Giving true Directions by Authentick Precedents, How to draw Affidavits [and other instruments] as are now in use in that High and Honourable Court. To which is prefixt An Introduction [etc.]. The Second Edition. Wing B5080A
Publisher:
Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Ed. Atkins [etc.], London, 1695.
Description:
A rare edition of one of Brown's many works, all practical, complementing his principal treatise on Chancery, the latter approved by Holdsworth as a work which "gives a good deal of information", as does this work; two copies in ESTC, not in EEBO
Condition:
Contemporary panelled calf, lightly worn, early paper label, a very good copy, with two slightly different imprimatur leaves; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79150
Price:
$ 950.00
Category:
equity, Forms & Form Books
book #55310
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher]
Title:
The Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student
Publisher:
Printed by the Assignes of John More Esquire [etc.], London], 1630.
Description:
Condition:
Contemporary sheep, rebacked in morocco; a good copy
Book No.:
W-55310
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY, Abridgements
book #79374
Author:
Bacon, Francis
Title:
Ordinances Made By The Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Lord Verulam, and Vicount of Saint Albans, being then Lord Chancellor. For the better and more regular Administration of Justice in the Chancery [etc.]. Wing B316; Gibson 212
Publisher:
Printed for Mathew Walbanke, and Lawrence Chapman, London, 1642.
Description:
Bacon's signal contribution to Chancery, largely "fixing the practice of the court till the reforms of the last century" (in Holdsworth's words), 100+ in number, procedural and substantive, the principal evidence of Bacon's years as Lord Chancellor
Condition:
Original vellum, darkened, definite browning and some marginal staining, small repair to the title's margin, contents disbound, in a protective sleeve
Book No.:
W-79374
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
equity, codification, courts
book #46735
Author:
Title:
The Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student. S.T.C. 21583 ['sold by' variant]
Publisher:
Printed by the Assignes of John More [etc.], London], 1630.
Description:
The only abridgment of Christopher St. Germain's famed treatise, a particularly able effort distilling the equitable principles debated in dialogue between the doctor of divinity and the student of English law in St. Germain's original creation
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf, a little dusty, else a good copy with ample margins; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-46735
Price:
$ 400.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY
 
Author:
Francis, Clinton and Sue Sheridan Walker (eds.)
Title:
Checklist of Research in British Legal Manuscripts Volume III
Publisher:
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, 1984.
Description:
Condition:
Stapled wraps; 58 pages
Book No.:
W-41605
Price:
$ 12.50
Category:
equity, maxims, Manuscripts
book #76756
Author:
Griffith, William
Title:
Institutes of the Jurisdiction and of the Equity Jurisprudence and Pleadings of the High Court of Chancery . . . and with a Concise View of the Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts
Publisher:
H. Sweet, 3, Chancery Lane, Fleet Street [etc.], London, 1868.
Description:
Only edition of a work written by a Gray's Inn barrister, expressly patterned on Justinian, with a chapter on maxims, several on trusts, on married women ("connubium"), contracts ("commercium"), infants and lunatics ("civitas"), and fraud
Condition:
Modern blue buckram, gilt, some browning, else well-preserved; a presentation copy ("Owens College / from / The Author")
Book No.:
W-76756
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, maxims, fraud, infants, insanity, trusts and estates, marriage
book #79479
Author:
Burroughs, Samuel
Title:
The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated. With Remarks on a late Book, intitled, A Discourse of the Judicial Authority belonging to the Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery [the Taussig copy]
Publisher:
Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange [etc.], London, 1727.
Description:
Part of the debate resulting in the Master of the Rolls' statutory independence, significantly affecting the distribution of authority within the Chancery, and written in opposition to Lord Hardwicke's tract appearing while he was Attorney General
Condition:
Contemporary calf, rebacked, seemingly a large paper copy, very clean and crisp, without the errata (corrections by hand) nor the advertising leaves
Book No.:
W-79479
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity
book #78253
Author:
Romilly, Samuel
Title:
Objections to the Project of Creating a Vice Chancellor of England. The Second Edition. To Which Is Added, a Letter from the Author [Sir Samuel Romilly] to a Noble Lord
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand [etc.], London, 1813.
Description:
The expanded second edition of Romilly's "gem of compact reasoning", contending presciently that the appointment of a Vice Chancellor would deprive the Chancellor of his most important judicial function, that of presiding over the Court of Chancery
Condition:
Modern 1/4 black morocco over blue cloth boards, a very clean copy; 44 pages, expanded from 18 pages of the first edition
Book No.:
W-78253
Price:
$ 350.00
Category:
equity, legal reform
 
Author:
Title:
A Collection of Such of the Orders Heretofore used in Chancery . . . For Reforming of several Abuses in the said Court, preventing multiplicity of Suits, Motions, and unnecessary Charge to the Suitors and for their more expeditious . . . Relief. Wing C5198
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Chase . . . and by Humphery Tuckey [etc.], London, 1661.
Description:
The orders which were largely those of Francis Bacon, in Holdsworth's words "fix[ing] the practice of the court till the [19th century] reforms", Bacon's sole successful effort at codification and "the best evidence of [the court's] organization"
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning, else crisp with both the index leaf, the final blank, and the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79698
Price:
$ 550.00
Category:
equity, courts, legal reform
book #44657
Author:
St. Germain, Christopher]
Title:
The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England. Newly corrected and Imprinted with new Additions. S.T.C. 21582.5
Publisher:
Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire [etc.], London], 1638.
Description:
An early 17th century edition of the first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy and natural law written in England, "a brilliant, comprehensive and intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
Condition:
Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-library; a sound copy
Book No.:
W-44657
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY
book #71909
Author:
Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke
Title:
A Discourse of the Judicial Authority Belonging to the Office of Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery
Publisher:
Printed by W. Bowyer [etc.], London, 1727.
Description:
First edition of Lord Hardwicke's only published work, "of great legal research and argument", legislation soon thereafter confirming his view of the Master of the Rolls' independence and significantly affecting authority within the Chancery
Condition:
Modern calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite a good clean copy
Book No.:
W-71909
Price:
$ 850.00
Category:
equity
book #72750
Author:
Williams, Walter
Title:
Jus Appellandi ad Regem Ipsum a Cancellaria: Or, A Manifestation of the King's Part and Power to Relieve His Subjects against Erroneous and Unjust Decrees in Chancery. Collected out of the Authorities of Law [etc.]. Wing W2774
Publisher:
N.p., London, 1683.
Description:
First edition of the first part of an uncommon work written by a Middle Temple bencher (and the Keeper of its library in the early 18th century) putting a strongly grounded historical case for the King's personal review of Chancery
Condition:
Later 3/4 calf over pebbled boards, quite worn, definite browning, ex-library; a usable copy only
Book No.:
W-72750
Price:
$ 850.00
Category:
equity
 
Author:
Ames, James Barr
Title:
Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays. Fifth Impression
Publisher:
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1925.
Description:
Ames' impressive collection of essays primarily on medieval English law, about one-third not previously published, sufficiently exceptional for Holmes to designate Ames as the sole American scholar undertaking work comparable to Maitland's
Condition:
Blue cloth, gilt, the spine quite worn; a usable copy
Book No.:
W-61681
Price:
$ 125.00
Category:
equity, MEDIEVAL, equity, MEDIEVAL
 
Author:
Ames, James Barr
Title:
Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays. Fifth Impression
Publisher:
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1925.
Description:
Ames' impressive collection of essays primarily on medieval English law, about one-third not previously published, sufficiently exceptional for Holmes to designate Ames as the sole American scholar undertaking work comparable to Maitland's
Condition:
Blue cloth, gilt, the spine quite worn; a usable copy
Book No.:
W-61681
Price:
$ 125.00
Category:
equity, MEDIEVAL, equity, MEDIEVAL
book #78785
Author:
Saint German, Christopher
Title:
The Fyrste dyaloge in Englysshe with new addycyons. Beale T464; S.T.C. 21562
Publisher:
Impryntyd by me Robert Wyer . . . in saynt Martyns parysshe [etc], London, 1531.
Description:
The first issuance of the second version in English of the first dialogue of Saint German's famed treatise on English equity (differing from the first version of the previous year) both serving as principal bases for the modern scholarly translation
Condition:
Modern calf, gilt, title slightly darkened with skilful repair, minor worming, light marginal staining, occasional early notations; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-78785
Price:
$ 10500.00
Category:
equity
book #80086
Author:
Faldo, Thomas
Title:
Reformation of Proceedings at Law. By way of Petition, Dedicated to the Honourable Committee of Parliament, for Reformation of Courts of Justice, and Proceedings at Law. Wing F208. Quarto
Publisher:
Printed by Hen: Hils, living . . . in Southwarke, London, 1649.
Description:
Only edition of the sole work of Faldo of Grays Inn, imbued with "[a] Selden-like scepticism about equity" and contending that Chancery was so arbitrary and even corrupt that its reform was difficult and reliance on the common law was much preferable
Condition:
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, light browning, the top margin cut a bit close, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-80086
Price:
$ 1250.00
Category:
legal reform, equity
book #80120
Author:
Saint Germain, Christopher
Title:
The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly corrected and Imprinted with new Additions. S.T.C. 21582.5
Publisher:
Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire, London, 1638.
Description:
An early 17th century edition of the first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy and natural law written in England, "a brilliant, comprehensive and intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
Condition:
Contemporary sheep, later label, the spine quite rubbed with three small holes, a fourth small hole in one leaf, ex Gloddaeth Library; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-80120
Price:
$ 450.00
Category:
equity, 16TH CENTURY, philosophy of law, natural law
 
Author:
Fortier, Mark
Title:
The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Britain and America
Publisher:
Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 2015.
Description:
Condition:
Original blue printed illustrated boards, a very good copy
Book No.:
W-80218
Price:
$ 75.00
Category:
equity, 18TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
book #80235
Author:
Imber, Matthew
Title:
The Case . . . of the Customs of the Mannor of Merdon . . . which are to be Observed and Performed by the Lord and the Customary Tenants . . . Inrolled in the Honourable Court of Chancery [including] some remarkable Passages, Suits at Law and in Equity [&c.]
Publisher:
No Publisher Stated, London, 1707.
Description:
Sole edition recording the results of the litigation between Cromwell's grandson (also Oliver) and his tenants over the scope of the latter's customary, historic rights in the only estate not seized from Cromwell's son, Richard, at the Restoration
Condition:
Contemporary speckled sheep, neatly rebacked, definite browning, lacking an initial (?blank) leaf if called for, else quite sound; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-80235
Price:
$ 650.00
Category:
copyright, Real Property, trials, equity
book #80273
Author:
Hatton, Christopher
Title:
A Treatise Concerning Statutes, or Acts of Parliament: And the Exposition thereof. Wing H1142
Publisher:
Printed for Richard Tonson, at his Shop under Grays-Inn Gate, London, 1677.
Description:
Only edition of the sole legal work written by one of Elizabeth's Lord Chancellors, praised by Holdsworth as "exceptional [with] a clear idea of the place of equity in the legal system", three of his eight chapters in fact devoted to that subject
Condition:
Contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed and a bit strained, some browning and foxing, else quite sound; with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-80273
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
Acts, Parliament, equity
book #79512
Author:
Brown, William
Title:
Praxis Almae Curiae Cancellariae: A Collection of Precedents . . . In Causes of the greatest Moment . . . Commenced in the High Court of Chancery . . . with a Preliminary Discourse . . . containing the Practice of the said Court [etc.]. Wing B5096
Publisher:
Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1694.
Description:
First edition of one of Brown's many works, all practical, and his principal treatise on Chancery, approved by Holdsworth as a work which "gives a good deal of information", examining in detail Chancery's rules, writs, bills, and decrees
Condition:
Contemporary unlettered calf, rubbed, front joint cracked but holding, some browning, contemporary signature dated 1717, usable; the Taussig copy
Book No.:
W-79512
Price:
$ 850.00
Category:
equity

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