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- Author:
- Bohun, William
- Title:
- The English Lawyer: Shewing The Nature and Forms of Original Writs, Processes and Mandates, of the Courts at Westminster. As Also The Forms of Returns and Directions of Writs, Processes, &c. With many curious Observations on the Whole [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [for three others], London, 1732.
- Description:
- Only edition of one of Bohun's many works, his scholarship elsewhere praised by Holdsworth, comprehensively discussing writs in the Royal courts, occasioned by the passage of the statute [4 Geo II c.26] requiring that court proceedings be in English
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, a bit of worming to the upper margin at the volume's end, else especially fresh and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79543
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- introductory law, Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- A Brief Method of the Law. Being an Exact Alphabetical Disposition of all the Heads Necessary for a Perfect Common-Place. Useful to all Students and Professors of the Law; Much wanted, and earnestly desired [etc.]. Wing B4435A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignees of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- Only edition of an ingenious effort to rescue the law student otherwise (in Holdsworth's words) "thrown upon his own resources" in learning the law, providing 1,622 heads under which the law (and the student's common-place book) could be organized
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, an occasional light marginal stain, else quite crisp now preserved in a folding buckram case; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78298
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- introductory law, education
- Author:
- Townesend, George
- Title:
- A Preparative to Pleading. Being A Work intended for the Instruction and Help of Young Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas. The Second Edition. Wing T1982. 8vo
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- Townesend's principal work, with a substantial portion devoted to language, including English words Latinized, English among French, Latin among French, doubtful expressions, exposition of words, and the formality of writing, with authorities cited
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, rebacked, much of the original spine laid back down, light browning, yet clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79695
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- pleading, legal dictionaries, introductory law
- Author:
- Title:
- The City Law, Shewing the Customes, Franchises, Liberties, Priviledges, and Immunities of the famous City of London. Together with the Names, Natures, Kinds, Jurisdictions, Powers, and Proceedings of the severall Courts within the same [etc.]. Wing C4354
- Publisher:
- Printed by T.R. for Timothy Twyford [etc.], London, 1658.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work represented as having been compiled by city officials from books "very ancient, and privately kept in the City Libraries", and then thought fit for the city's attorneys, solicitors, merchants, citizens and tradesmen
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, rebacked, the spine gilt lettered, one margin trimmed just affecting two side notes, else crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80039
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- London, introductory law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum . . . Containing A Variety of the most approved Precedents and Conveyances [on 27 subjects] To which is added, A true Copy of the late will and testament of Her Grace Sarah late Dutchess of Marlborough. 6th Edition. ESTC N64695
- Publisher:
- Printed by P. Wogan, No. 23, Old-Bridge [etc.], Dublin, 1795.
- Description:
- The rare sole Dublin edition of a popular everyman law book also printed in London, Belfast, and America over much of the 18th century, ably combining brief introductory commentary with multiple and varied forms; two copies in ESTC, neither in the UK
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, morocco label gilt, the paper somewhat grayed, else quite sound with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80064
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- introductory law, Every Man Law Books, legal dictionaries, conveyancing
- Author:
- Hawkins, John [Edward Cocker]
- Title:
- The Young Clerk's Tutor Enlarged: Being a most useful Collection of the best Presidents . . . with Directions of Writs of Habeas Corpus . . . To which is annexed, several of the best Copies both of Court and Chancery Hands now Extant by Edward Cocker. 8th ed
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and are to be sold by Thomas Basset &c. Wing C4859A, London, 1675.
- Description:
- A work of considerable variety and popularity, printed in some seventeen editions in the second half of the 17th century, its preface signed "J.H.", Hawkins likely responsible for the text, with Edward Cocker, a noted calligrapher, for the plates
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning, without the first blank but with the four plates, quite sound and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80094
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- Forms & Form Books, Every Man Law Books, habeas corpus, conveyancing, introductory law
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