J. 170
Dugdale’s origines Juridiciales.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 418, as above.
DUGDALE,
Sir William.
Origines juridiciales, or historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice . . . Also a chronologie of the lord
chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas,
barons of the exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, and serjeants at law; by William Dugdale Esq; Norroy King of Arms. The
second edition with additions.
[
London:] In the Savoy: printed by
Tho. Newcomb, for
Abel Roper,
John Martin, and
Henry Herringman,
1671.
Law 206
Folio. 224 leaves in fours and in twos; numerous plates of arms and other engravings in the letter press, 6 full page portraits
by W. Hollar, D. Loggan and W. Faithorne, three of them dated 1664; title-page printed in red and black; the Imprimatur, dated 24 May 1666, on the verso of the first
leaf, otherwise blank; the last leaf with the errata; separate pagination for the Chronica series cancellariorum . . . text
in double columns.
Lowndes II, 690.
Hazlitt II, 186.
STC D2489.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 17, 19.
Old calf, repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved in the new endpapers.
Orig. Juridic. in ink on the fore-edge. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On blank spaces at the end of this book and on 8 leaves inserted at the beginning
is a manuscript continuation of the
Chronica Series, from 1671, Dugdale’s last date, to 1729. Manuscript marginal notes in the same and other hands occur.
Sir William Dugdale, 1605-1686, Garter King-of-arms. This work was originally printed in 1666 and a large part of the impression was destroyed
in the Fire of London.
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171
Cotton’s abr. of the records in the tower. by Prynne.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 96. no. 422, Cotton’s abridgement of the Records in the Tower by Prynne, fol.
COTTON,
Sir Robert Bruce.
An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London, from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the
Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each king’s reign, and the several acts in every Parliament: together with the names
and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every one of the said Parliaments . . .
Collected by Sir Robert Cotton . . . Revised, rectified, in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several omissions, and exact tables,
both of the special matters, great officers, speakers, nobles, and other persons therein contained. By William Prynne . . .
London: printed for
T. Basset, and
C. Harper,
1689.
Folio. 294 leaves. There is not a copy of this edition in the Library of Congress, and no copy was seen for collation.
STC C6491.
Arber II, 262, 4.
Lowndes I, 534.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1571-1631, English antiquary. William Prynne’s [q.v.] first edition of this work was published in 1657. According to the
Dictionary of National Biography
, William Bowyer was the real author.
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