A Treatise on the Law of Awards, 1st edition, London, 1791.
The Best Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Awards According to Holdsworth Kyd, Stewart [d. 1811]. A Treatise on the Law of Awards. London: Printed for S. Crowder, Paternoster-Row, And B. C. Collins, Salisbury, 1791. vii, [1], 251, [9] pp. Octavo (9" x 5"). Original publisher boards with recent contrasting paper spine and printed paper title label, untrimmed edges, hinges mended. Light soiling and a few inkspots to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, contemporary armorial bookplate (of John Clarke Stoughton, Wymondham) to front pastedown, light toning to interior. A handsome copy. $950. * First edition. Holdsworth thought this was one of the best English treatises of the eighteenth century and the best book on awards. "It is a learned book, which describes historically the growth of the rules on this topic from the Year Books downwards, and discusses intelligently the modern cases both legal and equitable. The author knows a good deal of Roman law, and makes an effective use of some of its rules, which, he thinks, may have influenced the growth of the parallel English Rules." A Dublin reissue appeared later in 1791. Kyd published a second edition in 1799, which was the final edition of this work. It was reissued, with the addition of American cases, in Philadelphia in 1808. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII:399. English Short-Title Catalogue T69321.
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