[Rarebooks] fs-Inns of Court [I]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the Inns of Court
and related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our
web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word
or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  BONNER, George.  Practice Before the Masters in the King's
Bench Division.  Stevens and Sons, London, 1934.  Stapled wraps,
quite dusty but sound; 36 pages. [44086 L31]              $ 35.00

2.  BROOK, Robert.  The Reading Of that famous Lawyer Sr. Robert
Brook Kt. Upon the Statute of Limitations, 32.H.8. Cap.2. Wing
B4897.  Printed for Hen. Twyford . . . in the Middle-Temple,
London, 1647.  Modern blind-tooled calf, gilt board edges,
gilt-lettered label, title foxed, some browning and foxing
elsewhere, ex-library; a usable copy. [70689 BLS184L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70689   $ 1,250.00

One of the few Inns of Court readings ever printed, of which John
Baker locates some two dozen, and the only such upon the important
Henrician reform enacting the first statute of limitations (in
1540) enhancing the certainty of title to property.

3.  [CHANCERY].  John Rolt.  The Memoirs of the Right Honourable
Sir John Rolt, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Chancery
1804-1871.  By order of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,
Great Britain, 1939.  [16015]                             $ 35.00

4.  [COKE, Edward].  Le Reading del Mon Seignior Coke, Sur
Lestatute de 27 E[dward] I [1299]. appelle Lestatute de Finibus
Levatis [etc.]. Wing C4943.  Excudebat T.R. Sumptibus G. Lee, D.
Pakeman [etc.], London, 1662.  Modern calf, the margins cut close,
else a good, crisp copy. [69403 W0*BLS380L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69403   $ 1,500.00

First edition (and the only separate issuance) of Coke's only
published reading, twenty-three lectures given by him at Lyons Inn
shortly after he was called to the bar, and a rare example of a
lecture's text delivered before an Inn of Chancery.

5.  COLERIDGE, Stephen.  Quiet Hours in the Temple.  Mills and
Boon, London, 1924.  Original blue cloth, front free endpaper
absent, otherwise sound. [63065]                          $ 75.00

6.  Catalogue of Printed Books Comprising Sporting Books Industry,
Engineering & Transport, Cosmetics, Victorian Literature, Law
Books, and Other Subjects.  Sotheby's, London, 1975/76.  [16257
L41EL45EL65EL71E]                                         $ 15.00

7.  DANIELL, Timothy.  A Literary Excursion to the Inns of Court in
London. With a foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Goddard. Third
Impression.  Wildy & Sons Ltd, London, 1985.  Original printed
illustrated stapled wraps, a well-preserved copy; 80 unnumbered
pages. [71264]                                            $ 65.00

A work worth carrying around while strolling through the Inns of
Court, well-illustrated and with four detailed, numbered maps of
the Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn,
respectively.

8.  DOUTHWAITE, W. (comp.).  Catalogue of the Books in the Library
of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn: With an Index of Subjects
[etc.]. Bland 666.  Printed by C.F. Roworth & Sons, Newton Street,
High Holborn, London, 1872.  Original 1/2 morocco, marbled edges
and endpapers, with the gilt crest of the Inn on the front board,
quite rubbed, ex-library; a sound copy. [71706] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71706     $ 350.00

First edition of the first separately published catalogue of the
library (which itself dates back to the early 16th century),
arranged by author/title with an excellent subject index; uncommon,
eight copies in OCLC.

9.  DOUTHWAITE, William Ralph.  Gray's Inn, Its History and
Associations, Compiled from Original and Unpublished Documents.
Bland 385.  Reeves and Turner, 100, Chancery Lane, Law Booksellers
[etc.], London, 1886.  Original 1/4 morocco, worn, front joint
splitting; just usable. [67080 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67080     $ 150.00

The expansion of the work appearing a decade previously, written by
the Inn's librarian; with separate chapters on the Inn's library,
its eminent members (including Francis Bacon, Anthony Fitzherbert
and Samuel Romilly), and its masques and revels.

10.  DUGDALE, William.  Origines Juridiciales, or Historical
Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal,
Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of
Court and Chancery [etc.].  Second edition.  Printed by Tho.
Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound.
[60145 TASL50L67E]                                     $ 1,250.00

The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal
profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value,
termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and
"the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates.

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