The Lawyers Light: Or a Due Direction For the Study of the Law...
An Important Manual for Students of the Law Doderidge (Doddridge), Sir John [1555-1628]. The Lawyers Light: Or, A Due Direction For the Study of the Law; For Methode. Choyce of Books Moderne. Selection of Authours of More Antiquitie. Application of Either. Accommodation of Divers Other Useful Requisits. All Tending to the Speedy and More Easie Attayning of the Knowledge of the Common Law of this Kingdome. With Necessary Cautions Against Certaine Abuses or Oversights, Aswell in the Practitioner as Student. Written by the Reverend and Learned Professor Thereof, I.D. To Which is Annexed for the Affinitie of the Subject, Another Treatise, Called the Use of the Law. London: for Benjamin Fisher, 1629. [xvi], 119, [1]; [viii], 93, [3] pp. Two parts, each with title page. Quarto (7" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary limp vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine. Light rubbing, very light soiling and a few small scratches to exterior, vellum lacing skillfully extended and reinforced, light edgewear to endleaves, which are discreetly reinforced along edges. Moderate toning, partial crack in text block between items, all leaves secure, small later note ("by Lord Bacon") to second title page, internally clean. An appealing copy. $3,000. * Only edition. Sir John Dodderidge, or Doddridge, a judge during the reign of Charles I, was a formidably learned jurist who was both a common lawyer and a civilian who held a D.C.L. from Cambridge. Held in high esteem by Holdsworth, he is best known for English Lawyer: Describing a Method for the Managing of the Laws of this Land (1631). He may also be the actual author of William Sheppard's The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances (1648), though this is still a matter of debate. The Use of the Law, an anonymous title, is attributed by some to Sir Francis Bacon. English Short-Title Catalogue S109766.
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