Cy Ensuont Ascuns Novel Cases, Collectes per le Iades Tresreverend...
With Extensive Signs of Early Use Dyer, Sir James [1512-1582]. Cy Ensuont Ascuns Novel Cases Collectes per le Iades Tresreverend Iudge, Mounsieur Iaques Dyer, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Oue Divers Resolutions & Iudgements Dones sur Solempne Arguments & Avec Graund Deliberation, & Le Reasons & Causes des Dits Resolutions & Iudgements. London: Imprinted for the Companie of Stationers, 1621. [iv], 62, 65-377, [1] ff. Pagination irregular, text complete. Folio (11-1/2" x 7-1/2"; 29.2 x 19 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and later typed labels to spine, blind rules to board edges. Light rubbing and a few small scuffs, scratches and stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, head of spine mended, small nick near head of rear joint, which is just starting at foot, corners bumped and lightly worn, pastedowns loose exposing printer's waste, extensive manuscript index to rear endleaves (and final leaf of text), creasing, faint offsetting and light soiling to rear pastedown, which has a small tear to its fore-edge. Moderate toning to interior, light soiling in a few places, early underlining and annotations throughout text, most in a single neat hand, owner signature (of Edward Love) and illegible early annotation to title page. $2,000. * First published in 1585, Dyer's Ascuns Novel Cases-generally known simply as Dyer's Reports-contains cases heard in the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, Exchequer, and Chancery from 1513 to 1582. One of the pioneering publications of its kind, it was the very first collection of legal precedents to be referred to regularly as "Reports." It remained a work of immense authority, second only to the Year Books, and went through six editions in Law-French, the last appearing in 1688. The extensive annotations in this copy, written primarily in a single, precise seventeenth-century hand, consist of case citations, references to contemporary reporters, and brief analytical glosses. In several places, these notes are more expansive, continuing or elaborating upon the printed text. The early owner who left these marks was likely the Edward Love admitted to Lincoln's Inn from Thavie's Inn in March of 1653, offering a compelling visual record of a seventeenth-century English law student or practitioner actively engaging.
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