[Rarebooks] fs-Equity [I]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on equity and related
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1.  BARTON, Charles.  An Historical Treatise of A Suit in Equity:
In Which is Attempted, A Scientific Deduction of the Proceedings
used on the Equity Side of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer,
from the Commencement of the Suit to the Decree and Appeal [etc.].
Printed for P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1796.
Modern 3/4 morocco, some foxing and embrowning, but a usable copy.
[65136 L63L65E]                                          $ 350.00

First Dublin edition of Barton's first work, termed "clear and
straightforward" by Holdsworth, with a substantial historical
introduction and a careful treatment of the courts' processes,
providing ample, critical and intensely practical notes.

2.  BAYLEY, John (ed.).  Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery,
in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; to Which Are Prefixed Examples of
earlier Proceedings in that Court. . . from the Reign of Richard
the Second to That of Queen Elizabeth [etc.]. Three Volumes. Folio.
Mullins 1.20.  Printed by Command of His Majesty King George IV
[etc.], London, 1827-32.  Modern canvas-backed boards, a bit of
foxing, but generally a very fresh, clean and untrimmed set, once
that of Trevor Hickman, with his bookplate. [71568]      $ 650.00

The first attempt to deal with the enormous mass of early Chancery
materials, whose "value (in Baildon's words, continuing the effort
for the Selden Society) may be judged from the copious references
given to them in the works of Spence and others".

3.  BLEWITT, Reginald James.  The Court of Chancery, A Satirical
Poem.  Printed and Published by J. Kay, 1, Welbeck Street [etc.],
London, 1827.  Modern cloth, ex-library, some wear, else a clean
usable copy, with several ?authorial corrections in a neat hand;
without the portrait. [69822 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69822     $ 450.00

A work anticipating Dickens' polemics by many years written from
Paris by a poet who had spent ten hard years at law, its flavor
caught in its first two lines--"Oh! Court of Equity, misnamed,
where doubt / Leads many in; whence few, or none, get out".

4.  BRIDGMAN, Richard Whalley.  An Analytical Digested Index of the
Reported Cases in the Several Courts of Equity, and the High Court
of Parliament [in both England and Ireland], from the Earliest
Authentic Period to the Present Time . . . Second Edition. Three
Volumes.  Printed by S. Brooke, 35, Paternoster-Row [etc.], London,
1813.  1/4 calf, boards detached, ex-library; a working set. [55200
L27]                                                     $ 150.00

5.  CAMPBELL, John Lord.  The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and
Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till
the Reign of King George IV.  Eight Volumes.  John Murray,
Albemarle Street, London, 1846-69.  3/4 crimson morocco, gilt, Law
Society prize binding; sound. [52333 C15YL15E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=52333   $ 1,250.00

The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors,
described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best
biographies in the language"; with the eighth index volume, printed
in 1869, in a variant binding.

6.  CAMPBELL, John Lord.  The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and
Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till
the Reign of King George IV. Seven Volumes. Third Edition.  John
Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1848.  Contemporary calf, rubbed,
labels chipped, yet still a sound set. [49342]           $ 850.00

7.  CAMPBELL, John Lord.  The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and
Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till
the Reign of King George IV. Eight Volumes.  John Murray, Albemarle
Street, London, 1847-69.  3/4 tan morocco, the top edges gilt; a
pretty set. [60604 Y] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60604   $ 1,250.00

8.  CAMPBELL, John Lord.  The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and
Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till
the Reign of King George IV. New Edition, Edited by John Allan
Mallory [etc.]. Ten Volumes.  Estes & Lauriat, Opposite Old South,
Boston, [1870's?].  Brown cloth, gilt, worn, some hinges cracked;
a good working set. [69059] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69059     $ 250.00

9.  CARPENTER, William.  Chancery Reform. The Equity Jurisdiction
of the Court of Chancery; A Lecture. Delivered in the Theatre of
the London Mechanics' Institute, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, by Desire of the Council of the Chancery Reform Association.
Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, London, 1850.  Modern boards,
somewhat browned, a sound copy; 28 pages plus two leaves detailing
the officials and goals of the Association. [71469]      $ 150.00

An uncommon lecture graphically depicting the horrific delays and
expense in Chancery, delivered under the auspices of the
Association formed by Chancery victims, appearing shortly before
the publication of 'Bleak House'; four copies in OCLC.

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