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[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  [ABDUCTION AND ELOPEMENT].  The Abduction. The King v.
Wakefields & Thevenot. A Report of the Proceedings on the Trial of
Edward Gibbon Wakefield [and others] For a Conspiracy, for the
Abduction of Miss E. Turner, Before Mr. Baron Hullock . . . At
Lancaster Assizes.  Printed and Published by J. Pratt, 11,
Bridge-St. [etc.], Manchester, n.d.  Modern 1/4 calf, gilt, over
marbled boards, two repairs to the title, corner of leaf repaired
with small loss, else quite a pretty copy. [71640] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71640     $ 450.00

A seemingly unrecorded account of the case which sent Wakefield as
a youthful lawyer to prison, charged with seducing his rich
neighbor into a fraudulent marriage, her virginity saved through
his misunderstanding of 'defilement' at Scots law.

2.  ADDINGTON, William.  An Abridgment of Penal Statutes, Which
Exhibits at One View . . . The Offences, Punishments or Penalties
. . . Number of Witnesses, What Justices, The Enacting Statutes
[etc.]. Second Edition.  Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . .
. For the Author [etc.], London, [1779?].  Contemporary calf,
joints just cracking; well preserved. [44665 L36L43L66EL71L79E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44665
                                                          $ 500.00

Second edition (and the first in quarto) which, as the extended
title suggests, permits the presiding magistrate and anyone else to
see at a glance the salient elements of the charges lodged against
a prisoner and the prospective punishments.

3.  ADDINGTON, William.  An Abridgment of Penal Statutes, Which
Exhibits at One View . . . The Offences, Punishments or Penalties
. . . Number of Witnesses, What Justices, The Enacting Statutes
[etc.]. Second Edition.  Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . .
. For the Author [etc.], London, [1779].  Contemporary tree-calf,
joints cracked, label lacking, sewing a bit fragile, else a very
clean, even attractive copy, signed boldly by Addington. [55516
L43EL52EL66EL71EL79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55516     $ 450.00

A comprehensive work prepared by Addington while a Bow Street
magistrate, this copy possessing a second Bow Street association,
with the notation on the title "given to me by Sampson Wright Esq,
one of the magistrates of Bow Street Westminster".

4.  [BENCH-BOOK].  William Addington.  An Abridgment of Penal
Statutes, Which exhibits at one View, The Offence; The Punishment
. . . The Number of Witnesses and Justices necessary to convict
[and] a Reference to the Chapter and Section of the enacting
Statute.  Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . For P. Uriel
[etc.], London, 1775.  1/4 calf over marbled boards, showing wear,
but a good copy. [17717 L20L52L66L71EL79E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=17717     $ 500.00

First edition, and one in an unusual format (an oblong octavo),
which when laid open and flat permitted the presiding magistrate
and anyone else to see at a glance the salient elements of the
charges lodged against a prisoner; well indexed and useful.

5.  CAY, John.  An Abridgment of The Publick Statutes in Force and
Use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Kenry III to the
eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II inclusive
[etc.]. In Two Volumes. Cowley 231.  Printed by his Majesty's
Printer [etc.], London, 1739.  Contemporary calf, rubbed, front
joint of volume one cracked, but firm, one label lacking, yet a
good, clean set. [44186 XYL79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44186     $ 650.00

One of the three pre-eminent statutory abridgments to appear in the
history of English law, praised by both Cowley and Holdsworth,
arranged first by subject, then chronologically, and then, within
each reign, again by subject; with the errata leaf.

7.  EARDLEY-WILMOT, J.E.  An Abridgment of Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws of England, Intended for the Use of Young
Persons, and Comprised in a Series of Letters from a Father to His
Daughter [etc.]. A New Edition . . . by His Son, Sir John E.
Eardley-Wilmot. Eller 53.  Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,
London, 1853.  Original pebbled cloth, gilt, the spine faded, else
quite a fresh, partly uncut, copy. [69686 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69686     $ 350.00

A unique example of Blackstoniana (and unusual in a law book of any
sort), directed to the author's daughter, and expressly intended to
make her aware of "so much of the Commentaries . . . necessary to
be known by every gentlewoman"; not in OCLC.

9.  [GREENLEAF, Joseph].  An Abridgment of Burn's Justice of the
Peace and Parish Officer. To which is Added, an Appendix,
Containing Some general rules and directions necessary to be known
and observed by all justices of the peace. Cohen 8325.  Printed
for, and Sold by Joseph Greenleaf [etc.], Boston, 1773. Contemporary sheep, 
rebacked, the spine laid down. [44954
C18XYL44L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44954   $ 2,500.00

First and only edition of the first abridgment of a legal treatise
to be printed in America, and the only such abridgment to appear
prior to Independence, a substantial work in itself, with a brief
Appendix devoted to colonial justices.

10.  PULTON, Fardinando.  An Abstract of all the penall Statutes
which be generall, in force and use: Wherein is conteined the
effect of all those Statutes, which do threaten to the offenders
thereof, the losse of life, member . . . or other punishment
[etc.]. S.T.C. 9532; Beale S79.  Printed by Thomas Wight [etc.],
London, 1600.  Modern panelled morocco, a bit dusty, but quite
sound. [46741 ACTL26EL43L54EL71L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46741   $ 1,500.00

Pulton's first work in a lifetime devoted to the editing of the
English statutes and the first work to attempt to digest or
abstract English criminal law, arranged alphabetically and in
English; three copies in S.T.C. in this country, one imperfect.


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