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London: John Rees, 1990. Original cloth, as new, in the glassine dustjacket; the facsimile reissue of the second edition of 1957 The volume of the pre-eminent legal bibliography of the English-speaking world and the former British Empire devoted to Canada until 1956 and to the United States during its colonial period; other volumes and the entire set also available ... more information

Havana: Ricardo Veloso, Editor, Libreria Cervantes, 1922. Later amateurish leather, the original rather worn and chipped wraps bound in; a usable copy only ... more information

London: Stevens and Sons Limited, 1972. Paper, quite worn, usable only; 555 pages ... more information

Exeter: Published by George Lamson. J.J. Williams, Printer, 1822. Original sheep, quite rubbed and scraped, some light pencil notations and light foxing, yet a crisp usable copy First edition of the first work on arbitration law published in this country which contained comprehensive notes of American decisions, praised by Holdsworth ("a good summary") and the first of "the first modern textbooks for lawyers" on the subject ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. Original blue cloth, rubbed, the spine quite dull; usable The first volume in Harvard Series of Legal Bibliographies edited by Eldon James, then the Law School's librarian, who provides a general preface; with an introduction by Roscoe Pound, terming the work a "painstaking achievement ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927. Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1935. Original cloth, a very good copy, in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket ... more information

London: Printed for William Cooke . . . in Holborne, 1635. Modern brown blind-ruled goat morocco, gilt, quite browned; a usable copy only A rare example of a Inn of Chancery reading, one of two noted by Dr. Baker (the other by Coke), and one of the earliest readings to be printed, delivered at Furnival's Inn in 1574-75, prepared for publication by Calthrope, and widely circulated ... more information

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1950. Original cloth, worn and spotted, but a usable copy ... more information

Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1851. Embossed cloth, gilt, chipped and worn but sound ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1848. Contemporary calf, rubbed, labels chipped, yet still a sound set ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846-69. 3/4 crimson morocco, gilt, Law Society prize binding; sound 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 ... more information

Northport: Edward Thomson Co., 1894-99. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, the top edges gilt The most lavish and extensive edition of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the first part of the 19th century, with 126 full page illustrations, 14 in color ... more information

Long Island: Edward Thomson Co., 1894-99. Vellum-backed crimson boards, showing wear, but still attractive The most sumptuous and elaborate of all the editions of the Lord Campbell's 'Chief Justices', with many full-page plates, some in color and others folding, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest forward ... more information

Long Island: Edward Thomson, 1894. The most sumptuous and elaborate of all the editions of the Campbell's Chief Justices, with many full-page plates, some in color and others folding; with the crimson dustwrappers, well preserved, in the original slipcases, somewhat worn ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1847-69. 3/4 tan morocco, the top edges gilt; a pretty set 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 ... more information

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, Opposite Old South, 1870's?]. Brown cloth, gilt, worn, some hinges cracked; a good working set 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", beginning with the Anglo-Saxon chancellors and continuing through the 19th century ... more information

Jersey City: Fred. D. Lynn & Company, Publishers, 1881. Original olive-green cloth, gilt, a bit of wear and some browning, but a good, sound set One of Lord Campbell's two principal works, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the early 19th century; with the two volume continuation by Sir Joseph Arnould and the seventh volume index to the whole ... more information

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 143 Washington Street, 1873. Original brown decorated cloth, gilt, a trifle rubbed, but an exceptionally clean well-preserved set One of Lord Campbell's two principal works, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the early 19th century; with the two volume continuation by Sir Joseph Arnould, comprised of the biography of Thomas Denman ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846-47. Contemporary calf, marbled edges and endpapers, the spines extra gilt, somewhat rubbed, the rear board of volume one loose, else an attractive set 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", this set comprised of its first series (only), proceeding as far as 1688 ... more information