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Item #73187 The History of the Common Law, With Notes, References, and Some. Sir Matthew Hale.
The History of the Common Law, With Notes, References, and Some...

The History of the Common Law, With Notes, References, and Some...

The First History of the Common Law Hale, Sir Matthew [1609-1676]. The History of the Common Law. With Notes, References, and Some Account of the Life of the Author by Charles Runnington. London: Printed by William Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1779. [viii], xl, [4], 304, [2]; [xii], 114, [8] pp. Two volumes in one. The second, An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law has separate title page, index and pagination. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Recent quarter cloth over marbled boards with contrasting speckled-paper corners, printed paper title label to spine, endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior, light soiling to heads of a few leaves, light edgewear to preliminaries and final few leaves, ownership signature (of J.G. Williams[?], 1779) to head of title page. An attractive copy. $750. * Fourth edition, corrected. First published in 1713, Hale's History of the Common Law was the first book on the subject. "Hale's wide reading gave him a sense of historical perspective, which enabled him to map out the important epochs. Sketch as it is his history is living history because its author had a clear view of its whole course.": Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law 151-152. English Short-Title Catalogue T100933.

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