First Edition. 2 vol. in 4. Folio. Vol. I, 232, 223 leaves; vol. II, 206, 214 leaves; in fours; no title to vol. II which begins
on B
i; engraved portrait frontispiece before letter (supplied in ink) by A. Hertochs.
Marvin, page 617.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 189, 13.
Bridgman 289.
Cowley 159.
STC R1872.
Calf, interleaved with blanks throughout; rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate and that of Peyton
Randolph preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers; the portrait frontispiece and title inlaid. Initialled at sig. I and T
or their multiples in each volume by Jefferson, and a few manuscript marginal notes in his hand; manuscript marginal notes in an earlier hand, and on one or two of the interleaves.
Henry Rolle, 1589?-1656, English judge. His abridgment was compiled before 1640, but not published until 1668, when it was edited with
a preface by Sir Matthew Hale, q.v.
[1786]
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Hughes’s abr.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 164, as above.
HUGHES,
William.
The Grand Abridgment of the law continued. Or, A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the common-law of England,
contained in all the Reports extant, from the first of Elizabeth, to this present time, by way of Common-Place . . . With
two Tables, the one containing the names of the cases: the other, Of the matter of every of the said cases. Published in the
twelfth [-the second volume in the thirteenth; the third volume in the fourteenth] year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord Charls
[
sic
--
Ed.
] the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. By William Hughes of Grayes-Inne, Esquire.
London: Printed by
J. S. [John Streater] for
Henry Twyford,
George Sawbridge,
Thomas Dring, and
John Place,
1660-1663.
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First Edition. 3 vol. 4to. 528, 472 and 524 leaves including blanks, continuous signatures and pagination; the imprints in vol.
II and III vary from that in vol. I; separate title for the Appendix in vol. III (called for on the title).
STC H3324.
Marvin, page 402.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 189, 11.
Cowley 146.
Calf, rebacked and repaired with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
The autograph signature
R. Beverley on the title-pages and in the text, the cost written in an earlier hand. Titles written in ink on the fore-edges.
[1787]
J. 23
Shephard’s abr.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 165, as above, with reading
Shepherd.
SHEPPARD,
William.
A Grand Abridgment of the common and statvte law of England: Alphabetically digested under proper heads and titles. Very useful
and beneficiall for all persons whatsoever that desire to have any knowledge in the said Laws. In four parts. [-The second volume. -The third volume.] By William Sheppard, Esq;
London: Printed by
E. Flesher,
J. Streater, and
H. Twyford, Assigns of
Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns, Esquires. And are to be sold by
George Sawbridge,
J. Bellinger,
W. Place [and others],
1675. Cum Gratia & Privilegio Regiæ Majestatis.
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