Ballads en Termes de la Ley.
Edwardian Legal Verse Anson, Sir William Reynell [1843-1914]. [Raper, R.W., Editor]. Ballads en Termes de la Ley (Originally Written for the Use of the Trinity Lawyers) and Other Verses. Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation by Horace Hart, 1914. [i], 57 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Three-quarter pebbled calf over textured boards, deckle fore-edge, ribbon marker. Light shelfwear, withdrawn stamp of Printer's Library Oxford and armorial bookplate of Francis Pember on front pastedown. A very good copy. $250. * A charming and scarce privately printed collection of legal verse by Sir William Reynell Anson, distinguished English jurist, constitutional scholar, and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. Originally composed for the amusement and edification of the Trinity lawyers, Ballads en Termes de la Ley blends legal terminology with wit and poetic form, offering a rare glimpse into the lighter, human side of the English legal tradition. Contents include "The Ballad of Negotiable Instruments" and "The Ballad of Subsequent Impossibility." Reynell was the Vinerian Reader in Common Law and the Warden of All Souls College at Oxford. There is a double symmetry, between author and owner, in this volume, which stands out starkly: the author Sir William Reynell Anson was Warden of All Souls College in the University of Oxford, i.e. head of the college, and he was subsequently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i.e. head of the university. Pember [1862-1954], was Anson's immediate successor as Warden of All Souls, and later became Vice-Chancellor of the university himself.
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