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and jocular customs: first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now very much augmented and improv’d, by the addition of many thousand words, as are found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records, not hitherto explain’d in any Dictionary, to the Year 1708. With an Appendix . . . London: Printed for D. Browne, R. Sare, S. Battersby, J. Walthoe [and others], 1708.
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Folio. 174 leaves in fours; A Catalogue of Books on the verso of the first leaf, recto blank.
Marvin, page 233.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 4, 14.
Cowley 194.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the recto of the first fly-leaf is written Will m. Temple his Booke 1715 , with his seal below; also the signature John Semple.
Edited by White Kennett. This is the seventh edition of the work, and White Kennett’s second edition; his first was printed in 1701.
See no. 1812 and for a note on White Kennett, see no. 472.
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Cuningham’s Law dict. 2. v. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 187, as above.
CUNNINGHAM, Timothy.
A New and complete Law-Dictionary, or, general abridgment of the law: on a more extensive plan than any Law-Dictionary hitherto published . . . By T. Cunningham, Esquire, Barrister at Law. In two volumes. The third edition. Vol. I. [-II.] London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, S. Crowder, C. Dilly [and others], mdcclxxxi, mdcclxxxiii . [1781, 1783]
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2 vol. Folio. 422 and 444 leaves, collating in twos; printed in double columns. The volumes have the appearance of folios, though the wire lines go across the leaf.
Marvin, page 245 (1783 only).
Sweet & Maxwell II, 3, 6 (1783 only).
Cowley 271 (1783 only).
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 3.15.
Timothy Cunningham, d. 1789, barrister at law. The first edition of this work appeared in 1764-5 and the second in 1771. None of the bibliographies consulted gave 1781 as the date of volume I of the third edition, but all dated both volumes 1783.
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Statutes at large. 7. v. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 188, as above.
The Statutes at Large, in paragraphs, and sections or numbers, from Magna Charta, to the end of the Session of Parliament, March 14. 1704. In the fourth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne. Carefully examined by the Rolls of Parliament. With the titles of such statutes as are expired, repealed, altered, or out of Use. Together with the heads of Pulton’s or Rastal’s Abridgments in the margin; and above a thousand references from other books of law. With alphabetical tables. In three volumes. London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas’d; and by the Assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esqrs., mdccvi . [1706.]
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