8vo. 482 leaves collating in eights;
Additions to Reports on 12 unsigned leaves at the end with title, and imprint reading
Printed by E. Lynch, 1791.
This edition not in the legal bibliographies.
Jones, page 15.
Books printed in Ireland, 1700-1791.
Old calf, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T. With the autograph signature of J. W. Eppes on the title-page.
One of the books on Jefferson’s list to be purchased from Dublin, see no. 1716 and 1737.
Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, 1743-1823, was admitted a student of Lincoln’s Inn in 1771, and called to the bar in 1776. His wife was the daughter of
Lord North. The first edition of his Reports appeared in London in 1783, folio. This Dublin edition was pirated.
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J. 290
Strange.
2 vols.
8
vo.
........................................2.G.1.--22.G.2.
1815 Catalogue, page 82. no. 145, as above.
STRANGE,
Sir John.
Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery,
King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, from
Trinity Term in the second year
of King George I. to Trinity Term in the
twenty-first year of King George II.
Taken and collected by the Right Honourable Sir
John Strange, Knt. Late Master
of the Rolls. Published by his son, John
Strange, of the Middle-Temple, Esq.
The
third edition, revised and corrected, with
references to all the
cotemporary
[
sic
--
Ed.
] reporters; and other improvements. Vol. I [-II].
Dublin: Printed by
Elizabeth Lynch,
1792.
Law 125
2 vol. 8vo. 361 and 329 leaves; continuous signatures and pagination.
Soule, page 97.
This edition not in Sweet & Maxwell, and not in Bridgman.
Rebound in calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T and with the autograph signature of J. W. Eppes on the title-page.
On Jefferson’s list of books to be purchased in Dublin, see no. 1716 and 1737.
Sir John Strange, 1696-1754, Master of the Rolls. The first edition of his Reports was published in 1755, the second in 1782, and the third
English edition, described as the Third Edition on the title-page, in 1795. This Dublin “third edition” was pirated.
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Willes’s reports.
8
vo.
.......................................8.G.2.--32.G.2.
1815 Catalogue, page 82. no. 146, as above, with reading
Willis.
WILLES,
Sir John.
Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Court of Common Pleas.
During the time Lord Chief Justice Willes
presided in that Court; together with
some few cases of the same period determined in
the House of Lords, Court of
Chancery, and Exchequer Chamber. Taken from the
manuscripts of Lord Chief
Justice Willes. With notes and references to
prior and subsequent decisions by
Charles Durnford, of the Middle-Temple,
Barrister at Law.
Philadelphia: Printed
for
P. Byrne,
1802.
Law 132
8vo. 380 leaves collating in fours; publisher’s advertisement of
Law and Miscellaneous Books on 2 leaves at the end.
Sheep, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Jefferson was one of the subscribers to this work through
Rapine, Conrad & Co.; he received his copy on August 7, 1802, price $
4.50. It may be the book referred to in their letter to Jefferson written from Washington City on October 22, 1801: “We are about to publish a new Law book of great merit; (as per subscription paper inclosed) and ”
