A History of English Law; Or an Attempt to Trace the Rise, Progress...
History of English Law by a Popular Legal Writer Crabb, George [1778-1851]. A History of English Law; Or an Attempt to Trace the Rise, Progress, And Successive Changes, Of the Common Law; From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829. vi, 571, [1] pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Later library cloth, gilt fillet, title, library name and publication date to spine, endpapers renewed, untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, library bookplate and small shelf label to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, light foxing to fore-edges in a few places, small library stamp to a few leaves and title page, which is lightly soiled. $150. * First edition. This comprehensive work provides form and consistency to the history of English law and points out the changes throughout the development of the law. It was reprinted in America in 1831; a second edition appeared in 1840. Crabb was a legal scholar and member of the Inner Temple. He published several other works, including a compilation of precedents in conveyancing and a series of popular dictionaries. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:83.
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