Search Results: Practice Manuals from Nostre Livers

London: London, printed for Benjamin Fisher: and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster Row, at the signe of the Talbot: 1623., 1623. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 4to (7½ × 5¾ in): [12], 92, [4], 39 [i.e. 93]-168, [4], 169-230, [62] p. Recent quarter-calf over marbled boards, endpapers renewed. · Register: 4º: *^2 A-M^4 N^4(N2+a^2) O-Y^4 [chi]^2 Z-2O^4 2P^2. (Sheet E misbound E4, E[3], E2, E1; E3 signed "E2"; B2 recto last line has "Proces"; the errata leaf, [chi]2, bound before Z1.) · Condition: Title-page soiled, frayed at edges, laid down; fraying to corners of first and last few leaves; otherwise a fresh, attractive copy. · Comments: First of four editions, complete despite the irregular register. John Baker has identified it as the first printed treatise on common-law procedure. Most of the information in it is derived from late Elizabethan manuscript tracts, so it can be taken as representing practice in… Read More

Dublin: Dublin, printed for Eliz. Lynch, Skinner-Row, and in the Four-Courts. M,DCC,XCI. [1791], 1791. Leather. Good. Description: 8vo (9¼ × 6 in): t-p. [12] p., 1 l., 336 (i.e., 343), [43] p. (Seven page numbers are doubled and placed in brackets, to accommodate new matter without deranging the index; see the "Advertisement," on b4r.) Early calf, gilt title label. · Register: 8º: a-b^4 B-Z^8 2A-D^4 2E^2. · Condition: Joints cracked, reinforced with glue, head and tail chipped, boards rubbed, label darkened, paper toned. · Comments: Dublin reprint of the fifth London edition. The first edition by Buller appeared in 1772, but it was based on an earlier work by his uncle Henry Earl of Bathurst. The book is divided into three logical parts: a discussion of the substantive law of each form of action (which forms the bulk of the book), a section on the law evidence, and a concluding section on trial procedure in general. Each cause of action is briefly… Read More

London: In the Savoy: printed by R. and B. Nutt, and F. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Waller in the Temple Cloysters. M.DCC.XLI. [1741], 1741. 2nd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (8 × 5¼ in): t-p., 360, [39] p. Contemporary unlettered calf. · Register: · Condition: Joints cracked, leather torn at lower outer corner of bottom board. Interior clean, bright. · Comments: 'Ejectment' was originally a proceeding for a tenant for years to recover possession of land from which someone (other than his landlord) had 'ejected' him. Eventually, the courts allowed any person claiming a right to possession of land as his freehold to sue in the name of a fictitious lessee another fictitious party who was supposed to be the lessee of the true defendant. Thus, ejectment became the ordinary means for anyone to recover possession of land. Because a term of years was personal property, the action was personal rather than real in nature;… Read More

New York: New-York: printed by Isaac Riley, and sold by Alsop, Brannan & Alsop; No. 1, City-Hotel, Broadway. 1807. [Forms:] New-York: printed for Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, City-Hotel, Broadway. 1808., 1807. Leather. Very Good. Description: Three volumes, 8vo (9½ × 6 in): xviii, 664 (i.e., 398); [2], 665-1140 (i.e., 267), [124]; vi, [2], 526, [2] p. Errata slip tipped to p. [iii] in the volume of forms. Contemporary calf. · Register: 8º: [1]-[2]^4 [3]1 A-3C^4 3D^4(-3D4); [3D4] 3E-5H^4; [A]-3X^4. · Condition: Boards rubbed, joints cracked, first volume lacks label; title-pages clipped at top; light toning and foxing. · Comments: Two volumes plus the volume of forms. The first London edition of the treatise was issued in two parts, 1790-1794; the forms appeared in 1799. Tidd was a standard work through the first decades of the nineteenth century in both England and the United States, where it was "received as a proper guide for the practitioner, and… Read More

London: London, printed by Tho: Roycroft, for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop in Vine Court, Middle Temple, 1653., 1653. 2nd Edition . Leather. Fair. Description: (5¾ × 3¾ in): [4], 208, 193-384, [19] p. Contemporary green vellum. · Register: 8º: A^2 B-2D^8 2E^2 (I3 signed 'F3'; 2C3 signed 'Cc2'). · Condition: Book block loose from case, but the cords on the boards align with the cords on the book block; worm trail in text, affecting some letters on most pages; endpapers worn with numerous early manuscript notes; fraying to fore edge of first two and last four gatherings. · Comments: Second edition, published one year after the first. A very popular guide, reprinted and expanded numerous times down to 1724. · References: S&M 1:276(122); Wing T7B; ESTC R38210, R184820.

London: London: printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot, law-printer to the King's most excellent majesty; for T. Waller, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street. M.DCC.LXI. [1761], 1761. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Two volumes, 8vo (8¼ × 5¼ in): K.B.: [2], 554; C.P.: [2], 580 p. Contemporary sheep. · Register: 8º: K.B.: [A]1 B-2M^8 2N^4 2O1 (gathering N misbound N4, N3, N2, N1); C.P.: [A]1 B-2O^8 2P^2. · Condition: Leather worn, joints cracked, leather dry, spines chipped at head and tail, top board of K.B. volume nearly detached, back of C.P. cracked; pages toned. Early letter-press book-plate and signature of Cornelius Vandenbergh. · Comments: Sole edition of each volume. Two volumes: one for the King's Bench, one for the Common Pleas. Online ESTC shows six locations for the K.B. volume and four for the C.P. volume. · References: S&M 1:271(77), (78); ESTC T127632 & N20952.

Dublin: Dublin: printed by E. Lynch, Law-Bookseller to his Majesty's Courts of Law, in Ireland, at her Shops no. 6, Skinner-Row, and in the Four-Courts. M.DCC.XCI. [1791], 1791. Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (8½ × 5½ in): xvi, 558, [2] p. (the last leaf bookseller's ads). Contemporary calf. · Register: 8º: A-N^8. · Condition: Joints cracked, leather on spine skilfully patched at some early date; sheets 2G-K toned, affecting a few leaves in the adjacent gatherings. · Comments: Sole Dublin edition, a reprint of the second London edition of 1787; the first edition was published in 1785. Powell was a student of Charles Fearne, author of a celebrated treatise on contingent remainders. Powell dedicated his book on mortgages, his first, to Fearne. Powell also published three more well-regarded treatises, on powers (1787), devises (1788), and contracts (1790). · References: ESTC Johnson 161 (2 copies); Bridgman 258; S&M 257(19);… Read More