The Attourney's Academy: Or, The Manner and Forme of Proceeding...
"The First Printed Treatise on Common-Law Procedure" Powell, Thomas [1572?-1635?]. The Attourney's Academy: Or, The Manner and Forme of Proceeding Practically, Upon any Suite, Plaint or Action Whatsoever, In Any Court of Record Whatsoever, Within this Kingdome: Especially, In the Great Courts at Westminster, To Whose Motion All Other Courts of Law or Equitie; As Well Those of the Two Provinciall Counsailes, Those of Guild-Hall London; As Those of Like Cities and Townes Corporate, And All Other of Record are Diurnally Mooved: With the Moderne and Most Usuall Fees of the Officers and Ministers of Such Courts. Publisht by His Majesties Speciall Priviledge, And Intended for the Publique Benefit of All His Subjects. London: Printed for Benjamin Fisher, 1623. [xii], 92, [4], 39 [i.e. 93]-168, [2], 169-230, [64] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. Quarto (7" x 5-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, gilt title and gilt publication date to spine, pastedowns and free endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, some soiling and edgewear to endleaves and title page, recent repairs to front endleaf. An attractive copy. $750. * First edition, one of two issues, both from 1623. As Baker notes, this was "[t]he first printed treatise on common-law procedure." Holdsworth also notes the significance of Powell's book. A remarkably accomplished man, Powell was also a poet, man of letters, an archivist and a historian. Baker, ed., The Reports of Sir John Spelman 94. Holdsworth, History of English Law V:381. English Short-Title Catalogue S115003.
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