first edition
1793
by Coke, Sir Edward
1793. Dublin, 1792-1793 7 vols. Complete set.. Dublin, 1792-1793 7 vols. Complete set. A Handsome Set of Coke's Reports Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. George Wilson, Editor and Translator. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. in English, In Thirteen Parts Complete; With References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law; Exactly Translated and Compared with the First and Last Edition in French, and Printed Page for Page With the Same. To Which Are Now Added the Respective Pleadings, In English. The Whole Newly Revised and Carefully Corrected and Translated with Many Additional Notes and References. Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, 1793. 7 volumes. Unpaginated, main text star-paged. General title page for each volume and special title page for each part. Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, volume numbers and lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, moderate toning to interior, occasional light foxing, soiling and faint spotting, small tears to edges of several leaves not affecting text except a small, neatly mended clean tear to Vol. VI leaf Bb3, creasing to upper outside corners of first few leaves of Vol. VI, small hole to leaf O1 of Vol. III not affecting legibility, early owner signatures (Robert Swan) to title pages, two volumes with later institutional ink stamps to second leaves, early ink and pencil underlining and brief annotations to a few pages. A handsome set. $1,750. * Reprint of the London edition, 1776-77, to which it is star-paged. Prefaces in Latin and English in parallel columns. First published in Law French in thirteen parts from 1601 to 1659, Coke's Reports are not reports in the conventional sense, but highly detailed anthologies of precedents organized by topic. Taken together, they form the most extensive and detailed treatment of common law pleading that had yet appeared. A work of immense authority, it was often cited as The Reports, there being no need to mention the author's name. The first edition in English, which did not include pleadings, was published in 1658. English Short-Title Catalogue T121183.
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