First Edition. Folio. 437 leaves collating in twos and fours; engraved title within a border in compartments with portraits of
the Kings and Queens by Ja. Clark, engraved Arms of Scotland, full page engraved portraits, printed title and leaf
Lectori de Libro printed in red and black, woodcut initials; separate title-pages for the different parts.
Sweet & Maxwell V, page 92.
Clarke, page 419, no. 110.
STC S1265.
Old calf, some leaves discolored. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sir Thomas Murray of Glendook, 1630?-1684, Scottish lawyer and lord-clerk-register. His edition, known as the “Glendook acts” was copied from Skene’s edition
of 1597, with the subsequent laws to 1681. Two editions were printed in 1681 in folio and duodecimo respectively.
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Forbes’s Journal of the Sessions.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 90. no. 66, as above.
FORBES,
William.
A Journal of the Session. Containing the decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, in the most important cases, heard
and determin’d from February 1705, till November 1713: and the Acts of Sederunt made in that Time . . . Observed and compiled
by William Forbes Advocate, Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow. By Order of the Dean and Faculty of Advocates . . .
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author and sold by
William Brown’s Shop,
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First Edition. Folio. 448 leaves collating in fours except the second Index at the end which has a separate alphabet in twos and
separate pagination; title printed in red and black; engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. Cooper after Gul. Robinson; list of subscribers at the beginning.
Marvin, page 317.
Sweet & Maxwell V, page 33.
Advocates Library Catalogue III, 210.
Calf, rebacked. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On an inserted leaf at the beginning is a manuscript list of books, not in Jefferson’s hand, as follows:
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Kaim’s dict. of decisions.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 90. no. 67, as above.
HOME,
Henry, lord kames.
The decisions of the Court of Session, from its first institution to the present time. Abridged, and digested under proper
heads, in form of a dictionary. Collected from a great number of manuscripts, never before published, as well as from the
printed decisions. Vol. I [-II].
Edinburgh: Printed by
Richard Watkins, for himself,
Alexander Kincaid and
Robert Fleming, sold by
Alexander Kincaid,
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