294
Durnford and East’s Term rep.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 82. no. 151, as above, 26, G. 3--30, G. 3.
DURNFORD,
Charles,
and EAST,
Sir Edward Hyde.
Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of
King’s Bench, from Michaelmas Term, 26th
George III [to Trinity Term, 30th
George III]. Both inclusive.
3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I carries the Reports to Easter Term, 27th George III; vol. II from Trinity Term of the same year to Michaelmas
Term 29 George III and vol. III to Trinity Term 30th George III, as above.
Jefferson’s copy is not in the Library of Congress. An entry on the manuscript list of missing books reads: “
Durnford & East (vide if it belonged to Jefferson)”[.] The first edition was published in London 1785-1800; editions were published in Dublin, and several in America, the first
in Philadelphia, 1811, by Patrick Byrne.
As it was on Jefferson’s list of books to be purchased in Dublin (see no. 1716 and 1737) it is probable that he had one of the pirated Dublin editions.
Charles Durnford, fl. 1785, law reporter.
Sir Edward Hyde East, 1764-1847, was chief justice of Calcutta. These were the first law reports published regularly at the end of each term.
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Dallas’s reports.
3. vol.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 82. no. 152, Dallas’s Rep. 3 v 8vo.
DALLAS,
Alexander James.
Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of
Pennsylvania, before and since the
Revolution: By A. J. Dallas, Esquire . . .
Philadelphia,
1790, 8, 9,-1807.
Law
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I for the Reporter, by
T. Bradford, 266 leaves; vol. II for the Reporter, at the Aurora Office, 261
leaves; vol. III
ibid, by
J. Ormrod, 271 leaves; vol. IV for
P. Byrne, by
Fry and Kammerer, 263 leaves,
Law Books published by
P. Byrne
on the last leaf; collates in fours.
Sabin 18313.
Evans 22445, 33598 (vol. I and II).
Marvin, page 249.
Jefferson’s copy is no longer in the Library of Congress. A second edition of vol. I was published in 1806, which may have
been in his collection rather than the first edition.
Although the manuscript catalogue and the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue call for 3 volumes only, the working copy of the latter catalogue has inserted
in ink “4 vols”, which would imply that 4 volumes were received by Congress at the sale.
Alexander James Dallas, 1759-1817, lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury, was a native of Jamaica, W. I.
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M. S. cases in the Gen
l. court of Virginia.
fol.
M. S. cases in the Gen
l. court of Virginia.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 82. no. 300, MS. cases in the general court of Virginia, fol.
The Virginia Court Book, 1622-1629.
Contemporary manuscript on paper. Each leaf is carefully preserved and inlaid. The cases from 1622 to 1666 are bound in a
folio volume, buckram; 155 leaves and each one with an interleaf. The cases from 1626 to 1629 are preserved in 2 portfolios,
116 and 28 leaves.
Library of Congress
Handbook of Manuscripts, page 505, no. 4.
Virginia Historical Magazine vol. XIX. page 115, seqq.
These papers would be amongst those included by Jefferson in his description of his Virginia manuscripts to John Daly Burk
on June 1, 1805: “
. . . but some of the volumes are in such a state of decay, that the leaf falls to pieces on being turned over. consequently
as they never can be examined but once, I reserve that to the moment when the legislature shall
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