three-early-english-law-books-including-i-coke-on-littleton-i
Lot 1158
Three Early English Law Books, Including Coke on Littleton
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Edward Coke. THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. OR, A COMMENTARY ON LITTLETON, NOT THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR ONLY, BUT OF THE LAW IT SELF. London: John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, 1670. Seventh edition. Full leather with raised bands and gilt-titled red and green morocco labels on the spine. Folio; ff. [5] plus (2) portrait frontispieces, 395, [30]. With folding plate. Mostly double and triple column text; text in French and English. With printed marginalia, head-pieces, and decorated initials. ESTC R33309. (Rubbing/scuffing to boards, small marks on upper board, with light edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, spine lightly creased and rubbed with wear at ends including tear at head, joints creased with cracking at tail; hinge cracking, wear at endpapers with several wormholes at rear paste-down; leaves lightly toned with occasional grime, stain, tear, and repair, pages generally extremely clean; folding plate very good with (2) closed tears, light edge toning, a couple of foxing spots, and folding at edge.)

Edward Coke. THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND... Dublin: Printed for James Moore, 1791. Fourteenth edition. Rebound in full leather with raised bands and gilt-titled red morocco (original?)label on the spine, with fresh rear endpapers. Folio; ff. [12], xxpp., ff. 395, [30]. Text in French and English. With folding plate. ESTC N9777. (Handsome boards with light scuffing; original front paste-down preserved with bookplate, front endpapers with writing, hinges reinforced with original free endpapers and title extended, occasional small repair including on front free endpaper; leaves with light toning (occasionally heavier), scattered foxing, minor edgewear, occasional grime, stain, and rare chip or hole typically at outer margin, and some later leaves with damp staining along the edges; folding plate with tears at and near fold not impacting image.)

Thomas Vernon. CASES ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. PUBLISHED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THOMAS VERNON, LATE OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ; BY ORDER OF THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. 2 vols. (complete). [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling, for J. Tonson, et al., 1726-1728. First edition. Rebound in quarter brown cloth over grey paper-covered boards, spines gilt-ruled with gilt-titled label, fresh endpapers. Folio; [16], 490, [64 table]; [14], 767, [1], [108 table]pp. Vol. I with frontispiece; vol. II with letter to William Gylby Esq. regarding a trial and dated 1733 laid in loose. ESTC T95791. (Very light scuffing/marks to boards, some corners bumped, minor wear at tail of spines and label edges; vol. I with significant gutter cracking with boards separating from text block, and tears in title and frontispiece; pages with light toning, and occasional marginalia, grime, ink mark, and foxing, with soiling at upper margins, and mild wear at corner/edges.)

12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.; 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. each