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Item #73911 Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley...Edward III. Year Books, Edward III, Vulgate Edition.
Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley...Edward III
Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley...Edward III
Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley...Edward III

Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley...Edward III

Cases From the Reign of Edward III, Parts II and III of the Vulgate Edition [Year Books]. [Vulgate Edition]. Edward III [1327-1377], King of England. Le Premier Part de les Reports del' Cases en Ley, Que Furent Argues en le Temps de le Tres Haut & Puissant Prince Roy Edward le Tierce. Ore Nouvelment Imprimes, Corriges & Amendes, Avec les Notations & References a L'Abregement de l'Tres Reverend & Tres Sages Juges de cest Royaulme, Brook & Fitzherbert. [Bound with] Le Second Part de les Reports des Cases en Ley, Que Furent Argues en le Temps de le tres Haut & Puissant Prince, Roy Edward le Tierce. Ore Nouvelment Imprimes, Corriges & Amendes, Avec les Notations & References a l'Abregement de l'Tres Reverend & Tres Sage Juge de cest Royaulme, Fitzherbert. London: Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft for H. Twyford, F. Tytan, J. Bellinger [et al.], 1679. Two volumes in one, various paginations. Folio (15" x 9"). Later (eighteenth or nineteenth-century) calf, blind rules and fillets to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and fragment of lettering piece to spine, gilt rules to board edges. Rubbing and scuffing to boards with some wear to extremities, large gouge near lower right corner of front board, which is detached along with front free endpaper, rear board separated but secured by cords, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, small clean tears to edges of a few leaves not affecting text, small burn hole to text block of leaf Z6 (pp. 73-74) of second title with minor loss to text but not legibility, slight crack in text block between titles, all leaves secure. $500. * Maynard's (Vulgate) edition, parts II and III. Part II: 1-10 Edward III. Part III: 17-39 Edward III (omitting 19-20, 31-37). The old abridgements are valuable because they contain some of the cases of the wanting years of Edward III. Sir Frederick Pollock, "while pointing out that the text of the black letter Year-Book for the first half of the fourteenth century is so corrupt that a modern editor must simply disregard it and work on the unpublished MSS, indicates that the text of the later printed Year-Books may possibly turn out to be capable of use by future editors... No explanation has yet been offered of the gaps in years which occur i.

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