First Edition. 4 parts in 3 vol. 4to. 304, 257, 173 and 119 leaves only (should be 124, lacks sig. G
g) in fours; black letter; the fourth part is bound with the third, and has no title-page.
Marvin, page 643.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 3, 13.
Cowley 167.
Rebound in sheep; some leaves dampstained. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The autograph signature
W
m Jones K & Q County
on the title-page of volume III and on the last leaf
W
m Jones 1703
. A manuscript correction in vol. II, page 87, is not by Jefferson.
William Sheppard, d. 1675? serjeant-at-law and legal writer. This work is based on the author’s
Epitome
, published in 1656.
[1788]
J. 24
Nelson’s abr.
3. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 78. no. 177, as above.
NELSON,
William.
An Abridgment of the common law: being a collection of the principal cases argued and adjudged in the several courts of Westminster-Hall.
The whole being digested in a clear and alphabetical method, under proper heads, with several divisions and numbers under
each title, for the more ready finding any judgment or resolution of the law cases whereby the opinion and judgment of the
courts may be seen in an exact series of time, and what alterations have been made in the law by subsequent statutes and judgments,
brought down to the year 1725. By William Nelson, of the Middle Temple, Esq;. Vol. I [-III].
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
E. and R. Nutt and
R. Gosling. (Assigns of
Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for
R. Gosling,
W. Mears,
T. Ward, and
J. Hooke,
mdccxxv-mdccxxvi
. [1725-1726.]
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First Edition. 3 vol. Folio. 362, 306 and 350 leaves in fours; vol. I and II with continuous signatures and pagination; vol. II
ends with the catch-word
The but is perfect; publishers’ advertisement at the end of vol. III.
Marvin, page 534.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 3, 12.
Cowley 213.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate and that of Peyton Randolph preserved and inlaid
in the new end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume.
From the library of Peyton Randolph.
A number of the works of William Nelson appear in this catalogue.
[1789]
J. 25
Danvers’ abr’.
3. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 178, as above, A. to E.
D’ANVERS,
Knightley.
A General abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole.
With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, Of the matter under
general heads. By Knightley D’Anvers, of the Inner Temple, Esq; Vol. I [-III] . . . The
second edition, corrected.
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
E. and R. Nutt, and
R. Gosling, (Assigns of
Edward Sayer Esq;) for
J. Walthoe,
m dcc xxv-mdccxxxvii
. [1725-1737.]
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