J. 12
Broke’s graunde abr.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 163, Broke’s graunde abridgment, 4to.
BROOKE,
Sir Robert.
1586. La Graunde Abridgement, collecte & escrie, per le Iudge tresreuerend Sir Robert Brooke Chiualer, nadgairs chiefe Iustice del common Banke. [-Le secounde part.] [
London] In ædibus
Richardi Tottellj, vicesimo nono die Septemb.
1586. Cum Priuilegio.
Law 168
2 parts in 1. Folio. 356 and 328 leaves; title-page in woodcut border [McKerrow 153]; printed in black letter, colophon on
the last leaf.
STC 3829.
Cowley, no. 82.
Beale R475, 476.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Numerous manuscript notes, not by Jefferson, and the autograph signature of
Daines Barrington on the title-page.
Referred to by Jefferson in his correspondence with Thomas Cooper noted above.
Sir Robert Brooke, d. 1558, Speaker of the House of Commons and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. This work, partly based on that of Fitzherbert,
is an abstract of the year-books down to the writer’s own time. The first edition was published by Tottell in 1573.
For a note on Daines Barrington see no. 1043.
[1777]
J. 13
Finch’s law.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 76, no. 6, as above.
FINCH,
Sir Henry.
Law, or, a discourse thereof; in four books. Written in
French by Sir Henry Finch, Knight, His Majesty’s Serjeant at Law. And done into
English by the same Author. To which are now added, notes and references, and a table to the chapters. By Danby Pickering, of Gray’s Inn, Esq; and Reader of the Law-Lecture to that Honourable Society . . .
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
Henry Lintot, and sold by
D. Browne; and
J. Shuckburgh,
1759.
Law 214
8vo. 176 leaves in eights.
Marvin, page 308.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 167, 11.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sir Henry Finch, 1558-1625, serjeant-at-law. This treatise was originally written in law French and published in 1613; the first English
translation appeared in the same year, and was several times reprinted. This is the first edition edited by Danby Pickering,
English legal writer. Finch’s Law, until the publication of Blackstone’s Commentaries, was regarded as the best elementary
law book.
[1778]
14
Perkins
12
mo.
--id.
p.f.
1815 Catalogue, page 78. no. 4, Perkins 24s.
PERKINS,
John.
A Profitable booke of Mast. Iohn Perkins, Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England.
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers. Cum priuilegio,
1621.
