4to. 189 leaves in fours; engraved memorial tablet as frontispiece; title printed in red and black. On sig. T
1, at the end of Kennett’s life of Somner, is a list of
Mr. Somner’s Posthumous Manuscripts, now in the Library of Christ’s-Church Canterbury.
Marvin, page 654.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 307, 19.
Panelled calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved on the new endpapers. Initialled
by Jefferson at sig. I (twice) and at T in the second set of signatures. On the front fly-leaf is written in an early hand the price,
12/6.
William Somner, 1598-1669, Anglo-Saxon scholar. The first edition of this work was published in 1660. This edition of 1726 is the first
edition edited by White Kennett (“the present Lord Bishop of Peterborough”).
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J. 209
Taylor’s Gavelkind.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 79, no. 120, as above.
TAYLOR,
Silas.
The History of Gavel-Kind, with the etymology thereof; containing also an assertion that our English Laws are for the most
part those that were used by the antient Brytains, notwithstanding the several Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and
Normans; with some observations and remarks upon many especial occurrences of British and English History. By Silas Taylor Gent. To which is added a short History of William the Conquerour, written in
Latin by an anonymus Author, in the time of Henry the First . . .
London: Printed for John Starkey,
1663.
Law 345
First Edition. 4to. 2 parts in 1. 119 leaves, the last a folded table; on Bb
1 the title for
Brevis Relatio de Willelmo.
Marvin, page 686.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 307, 20.
Hazlitt 3, 246.
STC T553.
Sprinkled calf, rebacked and repaired with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new end papers;
several leaves remargined, the folded table defective and backed. The names
W
m. Bates
and
W
m. Leigh
written on the title-page and on the first page of text and the second title respectively; manuscript notes in an early hand. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Silas Taylor,
alias
Domville, 1624-1678, English antiquary, obtained material for his antiquarian works during the Commonwealth by ransacking the Cathedral
libraries for manuscripts. In this work he assigns the name and the custom of Gavelkind to an earlier period than that fixed
by his predecessor William Somner, see no. 2000 above. The Latin tract on William the Conqueror was communicated to Taylor
from the Bodleian Library by Thomas Barlow, the then librarian. It was entered by Jefferson separately in chapter 3.
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J. 210
Bohun’s Customs of London.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 121, as above.
BOHUN,
William.
Privilegia Londini: or, the rights, liberties, privileges, laws, and customs, of the City of London . . . The
third edition, with large additions. By W. Bohun, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;
London: Printed for
D. Browne,
W. Mears,
R. Gosling [and others],
m.dcc.xxiii
. [1723]
JS3562 .B6
8vo. 280 leaves: A-S
8, *T
8, *U
4, T-Z, Aa-Kk
8, Ll
4, the starred signatures with bracketed pagination.
Marvin, page 132.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 275, 7.
Rebound in calf, sig. M misbound. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and *T.
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