The history and analysis of the common law of England /
written by a learned hand.

Description

Main Author

Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676.

Related Names

Williams, Dorothy Watt, 1930-, donor.
Williams, Wendell S., 1928-, donor.
Ailesbury, Charles Bruce, Earl of, 1682-1747, former owner.
Walthoe, John, 1657 or 1658-1744, bookseller.
Nutt, John, printer.

Language(s)

English

Published

[London] In the Savoy : Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq., for J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters, and at his shop in Stafford, 1713.

Subjects

Common law.
Common law > Common law / Great Britain > Common law / Great Britain / Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
Early works.

Note

Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.
Gift from the collection of Wendell S. and Dorothy Watt Williams.
Bound with the author's The analysis of the law ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by John Nutt ... for John Walthoe in the Middle-Temple Cloisters, and at his shop in Stafford, 1713).
Armorial bookplate (with motto: Fuimus) of "The Right Honble. Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury) and Baron Bruce of Whorleton 1712" on title leaf verso ; ownership label of "W.A. Simpson" on front paste-down ; "Mary Eleanor Simpson" inscribed on first front fly-leaf recto.
Includes index.
With an initial advertisement leaf (A1 verso).
Signatures: A⁴ B-S⁸ T².
A learned hand = Sir Matthew Hale.
Running title: The history of the common law of England.
Published in the same year under the better known title: History of the common law of England.

Physical Description

[8], 264, [12] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

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