[Rarebooks] fs-English Law, including English Constitutional Law [VII]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on English law,
including English constitutional law; 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.  [SOMERS, LORD JOHN].  Jura Populi Anglicani: Or, the Subject's
Right of Petitioning Set Forth . . . Answered, Paragraph by
Paragraph . . . to undeceive the Minds of those that are prejudic'd
by . . . the said Scandalous Libel [etc.].  N.p., London, 1701.
Later boards, title dusty, else a wide-margined, untrimmed copy.
[67121 XYL70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67121     $ 650.00

Only edition of the detailed response to Lord Somers' classic
argument in support of the fundamental right of the people to
petition the King and Parliament, premised on natural law and Magna
Carta; uncommon, four copies in this country in RLIN.

2.  [SOMERS, John, Baron].  The Judgement of Whole Kingdoms and
Nations, Concerning the Rights, Power, and Prerogative of Kings,
and the Rights, Priveledges, and Properties of the People [etc.].
Third Edition.  Printed for, and sold by T. Harrison [etc.],
London, 1710.  Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, foxed and
embrowned but sound. [11497 L34] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=11497     $ 450.00


5.  STAUNFORD, William.  An Exposition of the Kinges Praerogatiue
collected out of the great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert, and
other old Writers of the Lawes of England [etc.]. S.T.C. 23217;
Beale T496.  Imprinted . . . in Fleet-streat . . . by Richard
Totthil, London, 1590.  Modern full calf, 16th century style,
attractively blind tooled. [49499 L23L53EL64L69EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49499   $ 1,500.00

One of the first English legal treatises of substance to
concentrate on a discrete subject area of the law, in this case the
powers of the King upon such matters as marriage, wardship, idiots,
lunatics, escheats and wrecks, among other matters.

7.  STUBBS, William.  The Constitutional History of England, In its
Origin and Development. Library Edition. Three Volumes.  At the
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880.  Contemporary tree calf, extra gilt,
a luscious superior set. [67895 L73] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67895   $ 1,250.00

Stubbs' masterpiece, still a classic of English medieval history
and constitutional law for which Maitland reserved the highest of
praise, calling it an "immense work [and] marvellously concrete",
with alternating analytical and annalistic chapters.

8.  WARWICK, Philip.  A Discourse of Government, As Examined by
Reason, Scripture, and Law of the Land.  Or True Weights and
Measures Between Soveraignty and Liberty.  Printed for Samuel
Lowndes, over against Exeter-Exchange [etc.], London, 1694.  Modern
panelled calf, title torn and embrowned; sound. [15621 L14] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=15621     $ 450.00

9.  WILMOT, John Eardley (ed.).  Notes of Opinions and Judgments
Delivered in Different Courts, by the Right Honourable Sir John
Eardley Wilmot . . . Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
Printed by Luke Hansard, and Sold by T. Cadell, Jun. [etc.],
London, 1802.  Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, a sound
attractive copy. [63820 L56L64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63820     $ 450.00

A fine selection of the opinions of the colleague of Lord Mansfield
whom Holdsworth termed "the ablest of the very able band"; this
copy presented by the editor (Wilmot's son) to his clerk and
thence, twenty-five years later, to the Law Society.

10.  WOOD, Thomas.  An Institute of the Laws of England: or, the
Laws of England in their Natural Order . . . Published for the
Direction of . . . Students in the Law; and of Others that Desire
. . . a General Knowledge in Our Common and Statute Laws. Eighth
Edition.  Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for . . . Samuel Birt
[etc.], [London], 1754.  Contemporary calf, joints just cracking,
but a very good tall copy. [65833 L64L67E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65833     $ 450.00

Wood's most important work, and the principal work examining
English law generally during the approximate century and one-half
between Finch and Blackstone, this edition appearing just before
Blackstone's Analysis and Commentaries were published.

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