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Item #64837 Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley Resolues & Adiudges. Sir John Davies, Sir John Davys.
Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley Resolues & Adiudges...

Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley Resolues & Adiudges...

Davies's Reports Davies, Sir John [1569-1626]. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley Resolues & Adiudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. Collect & Digest per Sr. Iohn Dauys Chivaler, Atturney Generall del Roy en Cest Realme. London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Company of Stationers, 1628. [16], 84, 84-99 ff. Complete. No other volumes issued. Folio (11" x 6-3/4"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period-style calf, raised bands, lettering piece and blind ornaments to spine, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block, hinges mended. A few shallow scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped. Large woodcut devices to title page, woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, small chip to fore-edge of fol. 68, small early owner signature to foot of title page. A handsome copy. $1,000. * Second edition (and the first published in England). Davies, or Davys, was a highly respected lawyer, judge, statesman and man of letters. First issued in Dublin in 1615, Davies's Reports covers cases from 1604 to 1612. Selected "principally for the use and benefit of our practisers here in Ireland," it soon became an oft-cited authority in England; It was praised by Willes, Lee and Lords Kenyon and Tindal. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1615. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:299 (42). English Short-Title Catalogue S123364.

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