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The Reports of Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt [with] The Second Part.

Shower, Sir Bartholomew

Reports from an "Able and Laborious Lawyer" Shower, Sir Bartholomew [1658-1701]. The Reports of Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt. Of Cases Adjudg'd in the Court of King's-Bench, In the Reign of His Late Majesty King William III. With Several Learned Arguments. With Two Tables: The First, Of the Names of the Cases; The Other, Of the Principal Matters. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Daniel Browne and J. Walthoe, 1708. [ii], ii, [4], 560, [44] pp. Collation differs slightly from ESTC record; text complete. [With] Shower, Sir Bartholomew. The Second Part of the Reports of Cases and Special Arguments, Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Beginning in Easter Term the Thirtieth of King Charles the Second, And Ending in Easter Term the Third of King James the Second. With Many Marginal Notes and References: With Two Compleat Tables, One of the Names of Cases, The Other of the Principal Contents. [London]: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne [et al.], 1720. [xii], 519 (i.e. 529), [21] pp. Lacking initial advertisement leaf, text otherwise complete. Folio (12" x 7-3/4). Later (nineteenth-century) calf, rules to boards, fillets, raised bands, lettering pieces, gilt volume numbers and institutional name to spines. Light rubbing and soiling and a few small scratches to boards, faint dampstain to front board of Volume II, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints chipped and starting slightly, reinforced in places with archival tape, spine head of Volume II mended with calf, hinges reinforced in cloth, library stamps to pastedowns, early manuscript annotations to rear endleaves, later ownership signature (of J.D. Pitman) to front free endpaper of Volume II, which has an 8-1/2" x 6-1/2" sheet with manuscript notes to recto dated 1738 laid in. Light toning to interior (somewhat heavier in Volume I), light foxing and soiling in several places, faint spotting in a few places in Volume II, small ink library stamps to title pages and a few other leaves, no loss to legibility, occasional annotations in two hands in both volumes. $750. * First editions. Issued separately but often found as a set, this important group of reports covers the period from 1678-1694. Though later jurists were divided as to the utility of some of the reports in th.

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