[Rarebooks] fs-The Englishman's Right and the English Jury plus Francis Bacon

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

HAWLES, John.  The Englishman's Right, or, a Dialogue Between
a Barrister at Law and a Juryman; Shewing . . . The Office and just
Privileges of Juries by the Law of England [with] An Introductory
Essay, on the Moral Duty of a Judge. By Lord Bacon. Cohen 1481. Printed by John 
Thompson of Philadelphia; for Alexander Brodie,
Philadelphia, 1798.  Modern goat morocco, blind-tooled, definite
foxing and browning, some staining, moreso to the final signatures;
a sound copy. [72024] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72024     $ 850.00

The last 18th century edition of the single most important work
seeking to preserve the power and central role of the English jury,
recently termed "the foundation text of jury independence and of
the jury as the bulwark of English liberty".

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