Sir Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke
Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The First [- second - third - fourth] Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, together 4 works in 3 vol., first part third edition, the rest first editions, titles within woodcut architectural borders, engraved portrait frontispieces, part 1 with additional engraved portrait and folding table, part 1 with occasional ink annotations in an early hand (extensive to rear endpaper), occasional light damp-staining and some soiling, contemporary calf, old reback, vol. 2 upper cover detached, [STC 15786 (first part); Wing C4948A, C4960 & C4929 (parts two - four)], folio, M. Flesher, 1633-44.
⁂ "...a disorderly, pedantic, masterful work...the basis of the constitution of the realm" (PMM) by the prosecutor of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
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Sir Edward Coke
Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The First [- second - third - fourth] Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, together 4 works in 3 vol., first part third edition, the rest first editions, titles within woodcut architectural borders, engraved portrait frontispieces, part 1 with additional engraved portrait and folding table, part 1 with occasional ink annotations in an early hand (extensive to rear endpaper), occasional light damp-staining and some soiling, contemporary calf, old reback, vol. 2 upper cover detached, [STC 15786 (first part); Wing C4948A, C4960 & C4929 (parts two - four)], folio, M. Flesher, 1633-44.
⁂ "...a disorderly, pedantic, masterful work...the basis of the constitution of the realm" (PMM) by the prosecutor of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
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