Book #75204
Item #75204 Placita Latine Rediviva: A Book of Entries; Containing Perfect and. Robert Aston.
Placita Latine Rediviva: A Book of Entries; Containing Perfect and...

Placita Latine Rediviva: A Book of Entries; Containing Perfect and...

Pleading During the Commonwealth and Restoration A[ston], R[obert]. Placita Latine Rediviva: A Book of Entries; Containing Perfect and Approved Precedents of Counts, Declarations, Barrs, Avowries, Replications, Pleas in Abatement, Issues, Judgments, As Well in Actions Real as Personal, And Sundry Other Entries; Useful for All Clerks, Attorneys, And Practisers in the Courts at Westminster, And Inferiour Courts: Not Heretofore Published in Print: Collected in the Times, And Out of Some of the Manuscripts, Of Those Famous and Learned Protonotaries, Richard Brownlow, John Gulston, Robert Moyl, and Thomas Cory, Esquires; And Now Digested Into an Exact Method, With a Table. London: Printed for H. Twyford, T. Dring, and John Place, 1673. [viii], 144, 177-332, 369-520, [16] pp. Text continuous despite pagination. Quarto (8-1/2 x 6-1/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked with raised bands, blind fillets, lettering piece and gilt publication date to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and a few faint stains to boards, which are slightly bowed, a few scuffs and very light gatoring to rear board, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and worn, small bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, occasional light worming to bottom of gutter not affecting text, light soiling and spark burns to a few leaves, small hole to leaf Ff1 (pp. 217-218) affecting a few letters of text without loss to legibility. $650. * First edition, one of two 1661 issues. A fine example of a seventeenth-century pleading manual. As suggested by its title, Aston's work, first issued at the beginning of the Restoration in 1661, aimed to revive aspects of pleading that were discarded during the Civil War and Commonwealth. English Short-Title Catalogue R7202.

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