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Reports of Ca. in Chancery.
3. v.
8
vo.
. . . . 1625.-1711.
1815 Catalogue, page 72. no. 18, as above, with reading
Cases.
Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reign of King Charles I. Charles II. and James II. being
special cases . . . In
two volumes. The
second edition with large additions . . . Vol. I [-II].
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
J. Nutt, assignee of
Edward Sayer Esq; for
J. Walthoe,
1715--
The third part of Reports of Cases, taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the Reigns of King Charles II, King William,
and Queen Anne. Being special cases, and none of them ever before printed. Vol. III.
ib.
for
J. Walthoe and
J. Walthoe Jun.
1716.
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3 vol. 8vo.
First edition of vol. III. 192, 234 and 128 leaves, collating in eights; publisher’s advertisements of law books in each volume.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Marvin, page 184.
Not in Sweet & Maxwell.
Clarke, page 373, no. 193.
Calf, rebacked (vol. III in a slightly different binding), the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in
the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume. Manuscript marginal notes by Jefferson and others. The autograph signature of
Jo
n. Martin Jun
r.
on each title-page.
These Reports were published anonymously, but according to a manuscript note in the British Museum copy, were compiled from
the papers of Sir Anthony Keck, 1630-1695, English lawyer, and commissioner of the great seal.
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Vernon’s reports.
2. vol.
fol. . . . . . . . 1680.-1719.
1815 Catalogue, page 72. no. 35, as above.
VERNON,
Thomas.
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. Vol. I [-II]. [
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
E. and R. Nutt and
R. Gosling, (Assigns of
Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for
J. Tonson,
B. Lintot, and
T. Ward,
mdccxxvi-mdccxxviii
. [1726-1728.]
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First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. 285 and 445 leaves collating in twos; engraved portrait by G. Vertue after G. Kneller dated 1725 in vol. I, the approval for the publication of the book on the verso of the first leaf, errata slip pasted down
on the verso of c
2.
Marvin, page 709
Sweet & Maxwell II, 106, 19.
Bridgman, page 346.
Clarke, page 378, no. 237.
Old calf, rebacked and repaired. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of George Wythe with his armorial bookplate in both volumes and numerous MS. notes by him.
Thomas Vernon, 1654-1721, English law reporter. His manuscript notes of cases were found after his death and published by William Melmoth and William Peere Williams who dedicated the work to Lord Chancellor King.
William Melmoth, 1666-1743, lawyer and religious writer.
For a note on William Peere Williams see no. 1750.
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Precedents in Chancery.
8
vo.
. . . . . . . . 1689.-1722.
1815 Catalogue, page 72. no. 19, as above.
Precedents in Chancery: being a collection of cases argued and adjudged in the
