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Item #75516 La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del. Sir Edward Coke.
La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...
La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...
La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...
La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...

La Size Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...

First Edition of the Sixth Part of Coke's Reports Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. La Size Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Des Divers Resolutions & Iudgements Dones sur Solemne Arguments, & Avec Grand Deliberation & Conference des Tresreverend Iudges & Sages de la Ley, De Cases en Ley Queux ne Fueront unques Resolve ou Adiudges par Devant: Et les Raisons & Causes des Dits Resolutions & Iudgements. Publies en le Cinq' an de Treshaut & Tresillustre Iaques Roy Dengl. Fr. & Irel. & De Escoce le 41. Le Fountaine de Tout Pietie & Iustice, & La Vie de la Ley. [London]: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1607. [10], 80, [1] ff. Lacking final blank. Folio (10-3/4" x 7-1/4"). Recent quarter morocco over cloth, gilt title, date and part number to spine, endleaves renewed. Very light fading to spine, lower corners lightly bumped, retained bookplates (one of W.H. Reece) to front pastedown, small circular sticker to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior, faint offsetting to first and final few leaves, light foxing in a few places, very faint dampspotting to ff. 44-45, occasional annotations in an early hand. $1,250. * First edition, one of two issues. Coke's Reports are not reports in the conventional sense; they are highly detailed anthologies of precedents organized by topic. Taken together, they form the most extensive and detailed treatment of common law pleading that had yet appeared. A work of immense authority, it was often cited as The Reports, there being no need to mention the author's name. Many cases in the sixth part are concerned with property and inheritance, though others deal with such topics as murder and the suppression of rebels. Some of the annotations to our copy are brief glosses or references to statutes, while others appear to be more detailed interpretative notes. Counting both issues, OCLC locates copies of the first edition in 8 North American law libraries (Harvard, Florida State University, Thurgood Marshall Law Library, York University, Library of Congress, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern). English Short-Title Catalogue S124668.

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