[Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
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1.  MAITLAND, F.W. (ed.).  Select Pleas of the Crown.  Bernard
Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly [for the Selden Society], London, 1888. Original 
buckram, gilt, showing definite wear, unevenly faded,
private ownership signature, else a good copy. [71548] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71548     $ 350.00

Original edition of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with
Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for
future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable
generalizations on the records of the Royal courts.

2.  MAXWELL, Peter Benson.  On the Interpretation of Statutes.
Second Edition.  W. Maxwell & Son, 8, Bell Yard, Temple Bar [etc.],
London, 1883.  Original cloth, rebacked, remains of original spine
laid in, some browning and tears, ex-National Unionist Association
Political Library; sound. [71565] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71565     $ 350.00

Once the copy of Edward Carson, the famed English barrister still
remembered for his cross-examination of Oscar Wilde and "possibly
. . . the finest orator of his day", with his dated ownership
signature ("Edward Carson / 1887") on the title.

3.  MCCLOSKEY, Robert Green (ed.).  The Works of James Wilson. Two Volumes. 
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967. Original green cloth, gilt, a very 
good set, in slightly worn dustjackets. [71554] PHOTO: 
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71554
                                                          $ 125.00

The sole modern edition, comprised primarily of Wilson's law
lectures delivered while he was on the Court, and as the country's
first post-independence law professor; with a substantial
introduction and an extensive bibliography.

4.  [MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AVERTED].  The Trial of Muluk Chand
for the Murder of His Own Child. A Romance of Criminal
Administration in Bengal. With an Introduction by W.A. Hunter.  T.
Fisher Unwin, 26 Paternoster Square, London, 1888.  Original red
cloth, gilt, quite worn and rubbed, a bit bowed, front hinge
cracked, a just usable copy. [71574] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71574     $ 250.00

The only case we can find depicting the talents of Manomohan Ghose,
the one lawyer singled out by Ghandi for "defend[ing] many a poor
man free of charge", here saving a humble watchman who had been
sentenced to death due to official corruption.

5.  MONTESQUIEU, [Charles Louis de Secondet] Baron de.  The Spirit of Laws. 
Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent. A New Edition, Carefully Revised . 
. . To Which Are Prefixed A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author; and 
an Analysis of the Work by M. d'Alembert. Two Volumes.  Printed for J. 
Collingwood, J. & W.T. Clarke [etc.], London, 1823.  Modern brown cloth, gilt, 
ex-library, somewhat dusty, else a good set; with the frontispiece in volume 
one. [71581] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71581 $ 
250.00

The first English translation in a later edition, a work which
Holmes opined "probably has done as much to remodel the world as
any product of the eighteenth century [the reading of which] is one
of the last achievements of a studious life".

6.  [PERJURY AND COMMERCIAL FRAUD].  An Authentic Report of the
Trial of Michael Stocks, Esq. for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury, at
the Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815, Before The Honorable Sir
Alexander Thompson, Knt. Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of
Exchequer, and a Special Jury.  Sold by the Principal Booksellers
in London [etc.], Huddersfield, 1815.  Original wraps, quite
chipped and worn, a bit of foxing, else a good untrimmed,
unsophisticated copy; 112 copies. [71613] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71613     $ 250.00

A rare trial, well reported, charging Stocks, a Yorkshire
magistrate, with perjury in perpetrating a large-scale commercial
fraud (securing 10,000 tons of coal to his own use), then seeking
to cover it up; one copy in RLIN, none in OCLC or KVK.

7.  [REFORM OF THE GAME LAWS].  The Criminal Code. Game Laws.
Folio.  Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan [etc.], London,
1828.  Contemporary 1/4 calf over buckram boards, worn, joints
rubbed, ex-library, else a clean fresh copy; two leaves of the
first appendix in facsimile. [71603 BLS881] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71603     $ 850.00

The portion of the monumental revision of the criminal law devoted
to the game laws, "exhaustive and complete [and] elaborate" in
Holdsworth's words, summarising and analysing the law from Magna
Carta forward and proposing reforming legislation.

8.  ROBE, Thomas.  The History of the Ancient Office of Clerk of
the Market of the King's Household; Its Authority and Usefulness;
with the Several Advantages Accruing to the Crown on Its Being Duly
Executed [etc.].  N.p., London, 1737.  Later cloth, ex-library,
some foxing, the title page lacking, though the folding table (with
a small tear) present; a textually complete working copy. [71546
BLS749] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71546
                                                          $ 250.00

An uncommon tract written by the current co-holder of the office
responsible for maintaining the King's standards for weights and
measures, describing its medieval origins and decrying its present
ineffectiveness; three copies in ESTC in the USA.

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