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Oxford: Oxford, printed at the Clarendon Press. M DCC LXII. [1762] Sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Temple-Bar, London., 1762. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Folio (12½ × 8 in): [4], viii, [4], 412, [19] p. (Errata on verso of t-p.; ads on verso of second leaf; a half-title precedes each discourse.) Full calf. · Register: 2º: [pi]² a-c² A-5Q². · Condition: Boards rubbed and detached, title label missing. Early armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Clayton on front pastedown. Private owner's name stamped in lower margin of pp. 101, 195. Sheets A-E lightly foxed; some spotting to 5A-D. · Comments: First edition, the only one printed at the Clarendon Press, in its elegant style. Holdsworth called Foster's book the "most remarkable and most scholarly of all the reports" of the eighteenth century. The four discourses (on high treason, homicide, accomplices in capital offenses, and observations on… Read More