Book #60864
Item #60864 A Book Of Entries: Of Declarations and Other Pleadings General and. John Hansard, Compiler.

A Book Of Entries: Of Declarations and Other Pleadings General and...

Includes "Appeals of Murder and Mayheme" Hansard, John, Compiler. A Book Of Entries: Of Declarations and Other Pleadings General and Special, In the Most Usual Actions in the Court of Kings-Bench. Also a Choice Collection of Special Writs, And their Retorns. Together with Observations in Pleading, Instructing the Younger Clerks in the Practice of that Court. From the Original Manuscripts in Court-Hand, Collected and Drawn by John Hansard Gent. Late of Clements-Inn. To Which are Added, Appeals of Murder and Mayheme, With Variety of Pleadings Therein. Not Printed Before in Any Book of Entries or Pleadings. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1685. [xx], 283, [21] pp. First leaf blank. Folio (12" x 7-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Light browning to text. Two eighteenth-century signatures of (of Robert Hume and one other) and another nineteenth-century signature (of William Shaw) to title page, interior otherwise clean. $400. * Only edition. Little seems to be known about Hansard and he did not appear to publish any other works. English Short-Title Catalogue R20439.

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