first edition
1740
by Great Britain; Court of Chancery
1740. Chancery Cases, 1724-1733 [Great Britain]. [Court of Chancery]. Select Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, Before the Late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal, And the Late Lord Chancellor King. From the Year 1724 to 1733. With Two Tables, One of the Names of the Cases, And the Other of the Principal Matters. By a Gentleman of the Temple. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, 1740. [vi], 82, [8] pp. Publisher catalogue to verso of half-title. Folio (12-1/2" x 7-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets to boards (running parallel to joints), lettering piece and blind and gilt fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text, light foxing, finger smudges and soiling to a few leaves, light edgewear to preliminaries, early repair to lower corner of half-title, library stamps to title page and foot of final leaf. $350. * First edition. Includes cases from 11 Geo. I to 7 Geo. II. Originally undervalued, this set of reports attracted favorable attention later and had a second edition in 1850 that was reprinted the next year in Philadelphia. English Short-Title Catalogue T96773.
(Inventory #: 70547)