First Edition. 4to. 284 leaves in fours; title in red and black, engraving in the text.
STC F1290.
Marvin, page 314.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 39, 15.
Rebound in calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T with a manuscript note by him on page 58; manuscript notes in an early hand.
This Latin text book of English law was probably written about 1290, and is supposed to have received its title from the fact
that it was written in the Fleet prison, London. It was first published in this edition by John Selden (q.v.), with a learned
preface by him. The word Fleta is frequently used as though it applied to a person, and is so used by Jefferson.
[1772]
8
Britton. by Wingate.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 3, as above, 1640.
BRITTON.
Britton. The
Second edition. Faithfully corrected according to divers ancient manuscripts of the same booke. By Edm. Wingate, Gent.
London: Printed by the assignes of
John Moore Esquire, [
Miles Fletcher,
John Haviland and
Robert Young] Anno
1640. Cum privilegio.
Law 167
Sm. 8vo. 328 leaves, woodcut device of R. Young on the title-page [McKerrow 405]; black letter.
STC 3804.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 38, 9.
Edmund Wingate, 1596-1656, English legal writer. This is his first edition of Britton, originally issued without date at least a century
earlier. Britton is supposed to have been compiled by John Le Breton, d. 1275, Bishop of Hereford. Britton is in the main
a condensation of Bracton, q.v.
[1773]
J. 9
Houard sur les coutumes Anglo-Normands.
4. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 161, as above.
HOUARD,
David.
Traités sur les coutumes Anglo-Normandes, qui ont été publiées en Angleterre, depuis le onzième, jusqu’au quatorzième siècle
. . . Par M. Houard, avocat en Parlement . . . Tome Premier [-Quatrième].
A
Paris: chez
Saillant, Nyon & Valade, & à
Dieppe, chez
Jean-B-.Jos. Dubuc,
m. ddc. lxxvi.
[
sic
--
Ed.
] [1776.]
Law 413
First Edition. 4 vol. 4to. The imprint in vol. IV reads
A
Rouen, chez el
Boucher, et se trouve a Paris . . .
Both vol. III and IV have on
the verso of the title-leaf the imprint of
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Dubuc at
Dieppe.
French mottled calf, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges; sig. Dddd in vol. I misbound, the error being indicated by Jefferson
in footnotes written by him in ink on pages 568 and 576. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated catalogue, with the price
56-0. This was the reduced price (from 96-0) of the copy bought by Jefferson through Robert Livingston, the United States Ambassador
at Paris, from
Charles Pougens on June 8, 1803. The other books on the same bill were intended for the Library of Congress but in view of the price, it seems possible that Jefferson retained this for his
own library.
In his letter to Thomas Cooper, January 16, 1814, previously quoted, Jefferson explained the interpolation by the clergy of
certain chapters of Exodus into King Alfred’s book of laws, and mentioned: “
this pious fraud seems to have been first noted by Houard in his Coutumes Anglo-Normandes (I. 88.) and the pious judges of
England have had no inclination to question it . .
”
David Houard, 1725-1802, was a native of Dieppe.
[1774]
J. 10
Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae
}
Hengham magna et parva
}by Selden
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 171, as above.
FORTESCUE,
Sir John.
De Laudibus Legum Angliæ. Written originally in
Latin by Sir John Fortescue
