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- Title:
- White Collar Crime, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate...[etc.] Parts 1 and 2
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 214 and 200 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90530
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- humor, legal reform, Law and Literature, Legal Ethics, White Collar Crime
- Author:
- Speed, Samuel
- Title:
- Fragmenta Carceris: Or, The Kings-Bench Scuffle; with the Humors of the Common-Side. The Kings Bench Letany, and the Legend of Duke Humphrey. Wing S4901. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.R. for Tho. Rooks at the Lamb and Ink Bottle [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- The work in verse dedicated to his fellow prisoners by Speed, the bookseller arrested on charges of publishing and distributing seditious works, full of irony and humor, opining that "Wisdom is the Wing of the Soul", in or out of prison
- Condition:
- Later mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, the original spine laid down, light browning, the margins cut close (main text unaffected); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79917
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Poetry, humor, prisons, Law and Literature, criminal law
- Author:
- Brome, Alexander
- Title:
- The Record of a Famous Action upon the Case. In Rythme. Wherein Priscilla Morecrave, Widow, was the Plaintiff, and Roger Pricklove was the Defendant. Being An Essay towards the Reformation of the Law [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Roberts at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane, London, 1727.
- Description:
- The rare reissue of Brome's satire humorously skewering in verse the Commonwealth's dictate that English be used in the law courts, here appearing some seventy years later, as again legal proceedings were proposed to be (and finally were) in English
- Condition:
- Modern boards, somewhat rubbed, else clean with ample margins and with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate, six copies in ESTC, 12 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78296
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- humor, Poetry, legal reform
- Author:
- Hine, Reginald
- Title:
- Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney
- Publisher:
- J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1945.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, very worn, stained and shaken; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-56859
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- humor
- Author:
- Title:
- The Charge of J[ustice] P[age] to the Grand Jury of M[iddlesex], on Saturday May 22, 1736
- Publisher:
- London, 1737.
- Description:
- An artful and well-deserved satire of Sir Francis Page, known as 'the hanging judge' by his contemporaries, singled out in universal disapproval by Pope both in the 'Dunciad' and his 'Imitations of Horace', by Henry Fielding, and by Dr. Johnson
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, attractive
- Book No.:
- W-55117
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, humor, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Sloss, Peter F.
- Title:
- Alice's Adventures in Jurisprudencia. Illustrated by Sally Richardson
- Publisher:
- Borogove Press, Belvedere, 1982.
- Description:
- A must for any Lewis Carroll fan, and indeed anyone else wondering what it would be like if Humpty Dumpty were Chief Justice, written by the San Francisco lawyer said by a colleague to be "the most creative and brightest attorney I ever worked with"
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, illustrated, 87 pages, as new, the remainder of the unsold copies purchased by us directly from the author, Peter Sloss, in 1998
- Book No.:
- W-63644
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- humor, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A.: A Cento of Criticism. High Court of Common Sense. Special Jury Case. Trinity Sessions, 1823
- Publisher:
- E. Brain, London, 1823.
- Description:
- A battered ex-library copy, without the title, plate, and half-title, but textually complete in 96 pages, recording the satirical mock trial; with a number of informed pencil notations throughout
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91709
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- humor, Religion, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Modern Law List and Weekly Gazette of Politics and Literature, Comprehending the Professions, the Stage, Sketches of Public Characters, Varieties, Together with a Picture of the English Bar, and of the Courts of Law and Equity in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by N. Teucher . . . No. 25, Fleet Street, London, 1828.
- Description:
- A rare issue of the short-lived gallimaufry bordering on the scurrilous, lampooning the law, with much verse ("Law, An Epitaphic Satire" as one example) and remarks by and about Burke, Byron, Napoleon, and the stage; no copy in COPAC, one in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, re-sewn and repaired, lightly browned, but a good copy; Vol I. No. V, pages 65-80
- Book No.:
- W-74951
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- humor, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Roebuck, Derek
- Title:
- A Miscellany of Disputes
- Publisher:
- Holo Books, Oxford, 2000.
- Description:
- Represented as "the first anthology of stories about disputes resolved without the aid of litigation", full of humor and wisdom, and venturing as far afield as Ancient Greece, Rome, China, and medieval England, with a touch of Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71575
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- arbitration, humor
- Author:
- Title:
- Some Observations Upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Corker and Marshal . . . By Tom Tickle-foot the Taborer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate [etc.]. Wing S4540
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Brewster [F. Smith], London, 1679.
- Description:
- A sensationally-phrased but amazingly perceptive contemporary analysis of the Popish Plot, written just after the acquittal of George Wakeman and others had swung the balance against Oates, supposedly written by a former clerk to an imaginary judge
- Condition:
- Modern calf, some light browning, else quite a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-66724
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- humor, trials
- Author:
- Hine, Reginald
- Title:
- Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney
- Publisher:
- J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19842
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- humor
- Author:
- Title:
- Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century
- Publisher:
- Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, London, 1916.
- Description:
- Original cloth backed boards, worn, the spine rubbed, but a sound copy
- Condition:
- Original 1/4 cloth, quite rubbed and marked; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-59636
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- humor, witchcraft
- 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
- Author:
- O [pseud.], [Theobald Mathew]
- Title:
- Final Forensic Fables, Second Series. With Thirty Illustrations
- Publisher:
- Butterworths, London, 1932.
- Description:
- First edition of the final of four separate volumes appearing between 1926 and 1932, to result in the rich trove which Lord Birkett called "notable literary possessions [which] have style and humour of a rare and splendid kind"
- Condition:
- Original boards, worn and shaken in a defective dustjacket; a reading copy
- Book No.:
- W-80262
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, humor
- Author:
- O [pseud.], [Theobald Mathew]
- Title:
- Forensic Fables. With Twenty Four Illustrations
- Publisher:
- Butterworths, London, 1926.
- Description:
- First edition of the first of four separate volumes appearing between 1926 and 1932, to result in the rich trove which Lord Birkett called "notable literary possessions [which] have style and humour of a rare and splendid kind"
- Condition:
- Original boards, printed paper labels, showing definite wear but sound
- Book No.:
- W-80261
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, humor
- Author:
- Sharpe, J. A.
- Title:
- Crime and the Law in English Satirical Prints 1600-1832
- Publisher:
- Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50084
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Legal Art, humor, 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY, Legal Prints, Bibliography
- Author:
- Bramston, James
- Title:
- Ignorami Lamentatio super Legis Communis Translationem Ex Latino in Anglicum . . . cui adjicitur, Index Expositorius locupletissimus Voces Communis Legis Angliae In hoc opere usitatas Exponens & Explanans. A variant printing not in ESTC [see imprint]
- Publisher:
- Vendit hunc Librum Gilliverus, Cujus Insigne est Homerus, London, 1736.
- Description:
- The spoof written by a Middle Templar turned clergyman (known to Pope who praised him in The Dunciad), "a high-spirited satire on lawyers, written in dog Latin hexameters", closing with a dictionary of about 100 law terms translated from the Latin
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, the spine double gilt ruled and lettered, some browning, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80321
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Poetry, humor, legal dictionaries
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