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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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. First Series, to the Revolution of 1688. In Seven Volumes.
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1846-47.
- 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", this set comprised of its first series (only), proceeding as far as 1688
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, marbled edges and endpapers, the spines extra gilt, somewhat rubbed, the rear board of volume one loose, else an attractive set
- Book No.:
- W-72438
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- 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
- Author:
- Hinde, Robert
- Title:
- The Modern Practice of the High Court of Chancery, Methodized and Digested in a Manner Wholly New . . . from the original Bill to the Decree; Comprising a System of Practical Knowledge, According to the Course of the Court as at present established
- Publisher:
- Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, G. Burnet, W. Colles [etc.], Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- Hinde's novel scheme (noted by Holdsworth) to analyze equity 'chronologically', that is in the order a Chancery lawsuit would take; with a considerable portion devoted to examination of witnesses, the hearing itself, and related writs and documents
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite rubbed, joints cracked but holding, else a clean usable copy; with the bookplate of Eric Poole
- Book No.:
- W-74571
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Author:
- Budd, Henry et al (eds.)
- Title:
- American and English Decisions in Equity. Being Select Cases Decided in the American and English Courts with Notes. Ten Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- M. Murphy, Law Book Publisher and Importer [etc.], Philadelphia, 1895-1905.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, rubbed, many spines quite darkened, some joints cracked; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-91471
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- equity, reports of cases
- 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
- 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, 1847-69.
- 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
- Condition:
- 3/4 tan morocco, the top edges gilt; a pretty set
- Book No.:
- W-60604
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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