The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England... 2 Vols.
Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary Upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself. Revised and Corrected with Additions of Notes, References, and Proper Tables by Francis Hargrave and Charles Butler, Including Also the Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Nottingham. The Eighteenth Edition, Corrected. London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1823. Reprint. Birmingham: The Legal Classics Library, [1985]. 2 volumes. Red calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine set. $65. * Coke's Institutes are thought to be the first textbooks on the modern common law. This reprint of the eighteenth edition is among the editions that Marvin claims are "preferred to the elder editions, both on account of the convenient reference to notes and for the excellent index." "If Bracton first began the codification of the common law, it was Coke who completed it. (...) In the Institutes (...) the tradition of the common law from Bracton to Littleton, whose name Coke's Commentary made famous, firmly established itself as the basis of the constitution of the Realm": Carter and Muir, Printing and the Mind of Man 126.
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