1. [Howel, King of Wales]. [Wales]. [Record Commission, Great Britain]. Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales; Comprising Laws Supposed to be Enacted by Howel the Good, Modified by Subsequent Regulations Under the Native Princes Prior to the Conquest by Edward the First: And Anomalous Laws, Consisting Principally of Institutions Which by the Statute of Ruddlan Were Admitted to Continue in Force: With an English Translation of the Welsh Text. To Which are Added a Few Latin Transcripts, Containing Digests of the Welsh Laws, Principally of the Dimetian Code. With Indexes and Glossary. Printed By Command of His Late Majesty King William IV Under the Direction of the Commissioners of the Public Records of the Kingdom. [London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1841]. 2 Vols. Main text in parallel columns. Large octavo (7" x 10"). Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Reprint of the octavo edition. With indexes and a glossary of Welsh and other terms. This is a scholarly critical edition of early Welsh laws based on original manuscript sources. The texts in Welsh have parallel English translations. Contents include the Vendotian Code, the Dimetian Code, the Gwentian Code, Anomalous Laws, the Leges Howeleis Boni and the Statuta de Rothelan. It remains a standard source for scholars of this period.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-694-9

ISBN-10: 1-58477-694-3  Item # 43971  2 vols.  Cloth  August 2006  $350.

2. Khadduri, Majid. War and Peace in the Law of Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. x, 321 pp. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Khadduri, a former professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, presents a lucid analysis of classical Islamic doctrine concerning war and peace and its adaptation to modern conditions. Working primarily with original Muslim sources, he examines the nature of the Islamic state, Islamic law and the influence of Western law. Other chapters consider classical Muslim attitudes toward foreign policy, international trade, warfare, treaties and how these have developed during the twentieth century.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-695-6

ISBN-10: 1-58477-695-1  Item # 44759  x, 321 pp.  Cloth  August 2006  $95.

3. [Lieber, Francis]. Perry, Thomas Sergeant, Editor. The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. iv, 439 pp. Reprinted by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Written with the participation of Lieber’s wife, this biography is a compilation of excerpts from Lieber’s letters and journals with connecting biographical sections by Perry. Though it was superseded by Frank Freidel’s Francis Lieber, Nineteenth-Century Liberal, which is available as a Lawbook Exchange reprint, Perry’s study retains certain advantages. In addition to its input from Lieber’s widow the book reprints excerpts from Lieber’s journals and includes letters that are not available elsewhere.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-682-6

ISBN-10: 1-58477-682-X  Item # 44032  iv, 439 pp.  Cloth  August 2006  $125.

4. Nicholls, Sir George. A History of the Irish Poor Law in Connexion with the Condition of the People. London: John Murray, 1856. x, 424 pp. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Reprint of the first and only edition. Nicholls [1781-1865] was a pioneering poor-law reformer and administrator. While Great Britain’s Poor Law Commissioner he drafted the Irish Poor-Law Act (1832). One of the first to assert that relief bred a culture of dependency and a resistance to work, he advocated the abolition of relief except as a last resort. Includes sections on urban poor, workhouses, housing conditions, child labor, vagabonds etc. In addition to the present study, he wrote A History of the English Poor Law (1854) and A History of the Scotch Poor Law (1856). Like his other studies, this one relates the evolution of poor laws since the medieval era to economic, social and political history. Notably sophisticated works, they were held in high regard by Sir Leslie Stephen and F.W. Maitland.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-686-4

ISBN-10: 1-58477-686-2  Item # 44611  x, 424 pp.  Cloth  August 2006  $95.

5. Poole, Reginald Lane. The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. ix, 195 pp. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* The English Exchequer of the twelfth century developed sophisticated notarial and administrative skills and was an important precursor to the modern centralized state. Poole examines its history, organization and primary documents, including the pipe rolls and red and black books, and demonstrates that its reorganization during the reigns of Edward I and II had a decisive influence on the institutional systems of the king’s continental possessions. “[A] thorough, scholarly exposition of the subject.”: Lunt, History of England 865.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-658-1

ISBN-10: 1-58477-658-7  Item # 42972  ix, 195 pp.  Cloth  August 2006  $75.

Opera Omnia

Magnificent Typography

3 volumes in 6 - 10” x 16” books

Never before reprinted
First collected edition (1726) was limited to 750 sets and reprinted here for the first time

- Reprint of the first collected edition (published in 1726) which was limited to 750 sets, edited, with preface, index and life of the author, by Dr. David Wilkins.

- Collects all of the major legal treatises and antiquarian studies of one of the greatest figures in English legal history. Among the titles included are De Anno Civili Veteris Ecclesiae Judaicae Dissertatio, De Diis Syris, Dissertatio ad Fletam, Mare Clausum, Epistolae & Poemata, Titles of Honour, Uxor Ebraica, The History of Tythes, Of the Judicature in Parliament, Speeches and Arguments and Table Talk.

- This set is notable also for its handsome layout and typography, which features Roman, Italic and Hebrew type created for Bowyer by William Caslon. In Printing Types Updike refers to it as Bowyer’s “greatest achievement” and as “a stupendous piece of work” (II:102, 136-137).

ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-670-3