Add this copy of A New Abridgment of the Law to cart. $166.90, fair condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1778 by W Strahan and M Woodfall.
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None. Fair. A volume of this legal work by Matthew Bacon, featuring notable legal cases. Volume I of original V. The fourth edition. Matthew Bacon was an eighteenth century commentator on the laws of England. This was his major work which collected court cases of interest to lawyers looking for precedents. Bacon died before completing the text and it was added to at later times by various authors. A fascinating piece of English history, exploring the laws of the 18th century. In a full calf binding. Externally, worn. Heavy rubbing and loss to boards and lifting of leather from boards. Library marking to spine. Front joint tender. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages bright with spotting, handling marks and age toning throughout. Old ink annotations throughout. Fair.
Add this copy of A New Abridgment of the Law (5 Volume Set) to cart. $650.00, fair condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1778 by London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell.
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Fair. 5 volumes, complete. Folio, 37 cm. Bound in contemporary sheep. Red morocco spine labels. Bindings worn. Hinges cracked. Covers rubbed, dry. Vols. 1 & 2 covers scraped. Generally good internally, but vol. 1 has some marginal tanning, spotting, mostly to prelims. Some dampstaining and discoloration in vol. 4. Vol. 4 front board detached. Sold with all faults. A widely read work by colonial-era American lawyers. "The standard encyclopedia of common law on both sides of the Atlantic ocean in the 18th century." W. Hamilton Bryson, Legal Education in Virginia, 1779-1978 (UVA, 1982). 749-755 p. The organization of the work more closely resembles a legal encyclopedia with "a series of scientifically constructed treatises on all branches of the law alphabetically arranged." William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (Methuen, Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12: 169. Interestingly, both Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson owned copies of this work and used it in their legal practice. An important work in the evolution of American legal thinking. Early stamp's of W. H Lowdermilk & Co., Law Booksellers, Washington, D.C. Lowdermilk & Co. were legal booksellers at the turn of the century. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
