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161426952London: Printed for Robert Wilson 1614 1614. First edition. STC 1125; Gibson 102; ESTC 121055. Title-page a little browned; the outer edge of the title a little chipped and trimmed closely but not touching the text; very good copy. Small quarto modern dark red morocco gilt rules and lettering. Lacking the first and final blanks. One of Francis Bacon's first acts when he became the Attorney General under James I was to attempt to bring a halt to dueling a practice that was particularly fashionable among the ruling classes. James I issued an edict at Bacon's urging and Bacon then issued his own worded more strongly which was entered into the Stationer's Register on March 5 1614. Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> (London:) Printed for Robert Wilson, 1614 unknown books
1996151769London: Balafon Books / Outline Press 1996. First Edition. First Edition one of 6000 numbered copies this being No. 2686. <br/><br/>Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket with a touch rubbing to the gold foil of the jacket spine. In a Near Fine publisher's slipcase. Balafon Books / Outline Press unknown books
1731719411731. London 1731. 1st edition. London 1731. 1st edition. Owned by a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution Bacon Matthew fl. 1730. George Read 1733-1798 Owner. The Compleat Arbitrator: Or the Law of Awards and Arbitraments; Containing Plain and Easy Directions to All Kinds of Arbitrators What Matters are Proper to be Submitted to Arbitration And In What Manner; The Nature and Different Kinds of Submissions The Parties to the Submission The Duty and Office of Arbitrators and Umpires; The Right Manner of Making and Delivering up Awards How Awards Have Been Construed in Equity The Manner of Making and Enforcing the Performance of Awards When the Submission Has Been Made a Rule of Court; The Right Method of Setting Forth and Pleading Awards. With Precedents of Submissions Awards And Pleadings in All Cases. London: Printed by E. And R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1731. vi 6 308 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf rebacked in period style blind frames to boards raised bands and retained existing lettering piece to spine hinges mended. A few minor nicks and scuffs to boards faint stain to foot of front board light rubbing to lettering piece corners bumped and lightly worn nineteenth-century bookseller label twentieth-century bookplate William J. Highfield and two owner signatures "Lyon" and "J. Joshua Fish 1949" to front pastedown two gift inscriptions from Highfield to "Judge Wiley Grau" dated 1935 and "Albert J. Nauby" dated 1941 to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to text occasional faint dampstaining to margins light browning and foxing in a few places owner signature of George Read to head of title page. Book housed in recent cloth slipcase light rubbing to extremities. $3500. First edition. This was the first substantial treatise on the subject. It was preceded by an anonymous 93-page work from 1694. "It is a good straightforward and up-to-date account of the law. That it was found to be useful is shown by the fact that it reached a third edition in 1770" Holdsworth. Read a lawyer and politician from New Castle Delaware was a signer of the Declaration of Independence a Continental Congressman a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787 President of Delaware a U.S. Senator and Delaware's Chief Justice. Along with Roger Sherman Read was one of the two statesmen w. unknown books
2009546062009. ISBN-13: 9781584779599; ISBN-10: 1584779594. The First Significant Treatise on Arbitration Bacon Matthew fl. 1730. By a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. The Compleat Arbitrator; or the Law of Awards and Arbitraments; Containing Plain and Easy Directions to all Kinds of Arbitrators; What Matters are Proper to be Submitted to Arbitration And in What Manner; The Nature and Different Kinds of Submissions the Parties to the Submission The Duty and Office of Arbitrators and Umpires; The Right Manner of Making and Delivering up Awards; How Awards Have Been Construed in Equity The Manner of Making and Enforcing the Performance of Awards When the Submission has Been Made a Rule of Court; The Right Method of Setting Forth and Pleading Awards. With Precedents of Submissions Awards and Pleadings in All Cases. Originally published: London: In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt 1731. XXXI III-XXXI new introduction vi 6 308 pp. With a new introduction by Derek Roebuck Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779599; ISBN-10: 1584779594. Hardcover. New. $24.95 First edition. This was the first substantial treatise on the subject. It was preceded by an anonymous 93-page work from 1694. "It is a good straightforward and up-to-date account of the law. That it was found to be useful is shown by the fact that it reached a third edition in 1770.": Holdsworth A History of English Law XII:393. unknown books
1911003395New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press 1911. Cloth. Good Plus. 4to. 25 by 17 cm. xx 487 6 pp. Many photo plates. Fold-out color map. Ex-lib markings and vestiges on front endpapers. Front hinge loose. Text clean and better than a mere "reading" copy. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
190412161New York: Henry Holt and Co. Very Good. 1904. Hardcover. ex-lib; binding loose; contents clean and complete; Good . Henry Holt and Co. hardcover books
19072307426New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1907. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. All plates included one is loose. Rear board scratched front hinge starting. 1907 Hard Cover. 221 pp. Illustrated. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Josephine Dodge Daskam Mrs. Selden Bacon February 17 1876 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1887276877Boston: D. Lothrop 1887. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The front hinge has been discreetly reglued and there is a small chip to the leading edge of the first few leaves; otherwise a nice bright copy. Very Good binding. D. Lothrop unknown books
19801507130Easton Press 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Full-bound leather with gilt lettering decorations and edges. Moire endpapers. Collectors Edition. Previous owners bookplate on reverse side of front free end paper. Easton Press hardcover books
1630719871630. London 1630. First edition. London 1630. First edition. First Edition of Bacon's Elements of the Common Laws of England Bacon Sir Francis 1561-1626. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England Branched Into a Double Tract: The One Contayning a Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law With Their Latitude and Extent. Explicated for the More Facile Introduction of Such as are Studiously Addicted to that Noble Profession. The Other the Use of the Common Law For Preservation of Our Persons Goods And Good Names. According to the Lawes and Customes of this Land. London: Printed by Robert Young for the Assignes of I. More Esq. 1630. xxiv 104; 8 84 pp. Two parts each with title page and pagination second part titled The Use of the Law. Quarto 7" x 5-1/2". Nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco over cloth raised bands and gilt title to spine top-edge gilt marbled endpapers. Faint dampstaining to boards near top-edges moderate rubbing to extremities small chip to head of spine front joint and hinge just starting at ends corners bumped title page and final leaf re-hinged. Toning to text edgewear and light soiling to preliminaries and final leaves of text repair to lower corner of leaf D4 pp. 22-23 of first part below text. Two illegible later owner signatures to front endleaf one struck through another struck-through signature to title page. $1000. First edition. Bacon one of the great intellectuals of his era held the posts of Solicitor General Attorney General and Lord Chancellor during the reign of James I. The Elements of the Common Laws of England is the general title for a work that is comprised of two different treatises: A Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England and The Use of the Law Provided for the Preservation of Our Persons Goods and Good Names. The first contains a set of twenty-five maxims or regulae one of the earliest if not first collection of maxims on English law. These maxims are remarkable for their stylistic vigor intellectual rigor meticulousness and clarity. The Regulae was intended to be the first part of De Regulis Juris a codification of English law that Bacon never completed. This is quite unfortunate observes Holdsworth because "he alone had the philosophical capacity the historical knowledge. unknown books
2019363492019. ISBN-13: 9781584772484; ISBN-10: 1584772484. Bacon Sir Francis. The Elements of the Common Laws of England Branched into a Double Tract: The One Contayning A Collection of Some Principal Rules and Maxims of the Common Law With Their Latitude and Extent. Explicated for the More Facile Introduction of Such as are Studiously Addicted to That Noble Profession. With The Other: The Use of the Common Law for the Preservation of our Persons Goods and Good Names. According to the Laws and Customs of this Land. Originally published: London: Printed by the Assignes of I. More Esq. 1630. xix 104 vii 84 pp. Reprinted 2003 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772484; ISBN-10: 1584772484. Hardcover. New. $39.95 The Elements of the Common Laws of England is the general title for a work that is comprised of two different treatises: A Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England and The Use of the Law Provided for the Preservation of Our Persons Goods and Good Names. The first contains a set of twenty-five maxims or regulae. One of the earliest if not first collections of maxims on English law it is remarkable for its stylistic vigor intellectual rigor meticulousness and clarity. The second treatise is a review of the history and practical application of criminal law estate law personal property law and the law of slander i.e. "the preservation of our good names from shame and infamy". The Use of the Law is probably not in fact by Bacon; it was first printed anonymously as Part II of The Lawyers Light 1629 by Sir John Doddridge. Among America's Founding Fathers Jefferson held Bacon in high esteem. In a 1789 letter to John Trumbull he said he considered Bacon Locke and Newton to be "the three greatest men that have ever lived without any exception." One of the great intellectuals of his era Bacon 1561-1626 held the posts of Solicitor General Attorney General and Lord Chancellor during the reign of James I. unknown books
2007441422007. ISBN-13: 9781584777144; ISBN-10: 1584777141. Landmark 1680 Essay on English Juries Hawles Sir John. The Englishman's Right; A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law and a Juryman; Shewing I. The Antiquity II. The Excellent Designed Use III. The Office and Just Privileges of Juries by the Law of England Being a Choice Help for All Who Are Qualified by Law to Serve on Juries. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Essay On the Moral Duty of a Judge. Philadelphia: Printed by John Thompson for Alexander Brodie 1798. 70 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777144; ISBN-10: 1584777141. Hardcover. New. $65. Reprint of the last edition published during the eighteenth century. Called "the foundation text of jury independence and of the jury as a bulwark of English Liberty" this important work was first published in 1680 with the title Grand Juryman's Oath and Office Explained. A staunch Whig Hawles 1645-1716 wrote The Englishman's Right to outline the rights duties and proper behavior of a juryman and to show him how he was an agent against tyranny. Immediately successful among Whigs and others who saw themselves as defenders of English liberties it was received with great enthusiasm in America where it was reprinted several times well into the nineteenth century. According to Cohen's Bibliography of Early American Law it was probably the first English law book reprinted in the American colonies 1481. unknown books
1613319858London: John Beale for John Jaggard 1613. Beale piracy with "Aturney" on title-page. Title within border of printer's ornaments head- and tailpieces woodcut initials "Of the Colours" section title. 232 pp. Collation: A2-O8 P3 lacking blanks A1 and P4. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum manuscript title on spine. Title and terminal leaf soiled and worn with some small chips at edges small void in the title touching the ornamental border two small voids in terminal leaf costing a couple letters. Beale piracy with "Aturney" on title-page. Title within border of printer's ornaments head- and tailpieces woodcut initials "Of the Colours" section title. 232 pp. Collation: A2-O8 P3 lacking blanks A1 and P4. Small 8vo. Beale Pirated Edition of Bacon's Essayes. There were three editions of Bacon's Essayes dated 1613 with a Jaggard imprint. The first printed by Jaggard after the 1612 Beale edition of the Essayes has the spelling "Atturny" for "Attorney" on the title-page. The other two printings which spell "Attorney" as "Aturney" as here and "Atturney" are in fact counterfeit editions printed by the same John Beale whose 1612 edition stood as the model for Jaggard's 1613 edition. There is some debate about Jaggard's right to print the Essayes as he never registered the work with the Stationers' Company see Pforzheimer 29 for the arguments.<br/><br/>The Essayes of statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon 1561-1626 treat moral and political topics in "a terse aphoristic style . which Bacon conceived as a genre setting down discrete observations on life and aspiring to some kind of objective validity" ODNB. "In an age of complicated and superficial verbiage Bacon turns the licence of imaginative and allusive expression into an instrument of accurate and chastened thought" Cambridge History of English and American Literature. The Essayes were originally circulated in manuscript among Bacon's friends - the threat of a pirated edition by Richard Seeger lead to Bacon entrusting the work to Humfrey Hooper for publication in 1597. ESTC S100361; Gibson 9; Pforzheimer 29 [John Beale] for John Jaggard unknown books
19802294860The Easton Press 1980. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Light spotting on fore edge a few minor scuffs. 1980 Full-Leather. ix 3 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. "Francis Bacon 1st Viscount of St. Alban KC 22 January 1561 The Easton Press hardcover books
19802285627The Easton Press 1980. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor loss of gilt from front board. 1980 Full-Leather. ix 3 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. "Francis Bacon 1st Viscount of St. Alban KC 22 January 1561 The Easton Press hardcover books
1980TB27196Norwalk Conn.: The Easton Press 1980. Collector's Edition. Fine in full medium brown leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are gilt. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 7" containing 190 pages of text. With an introduction by Christopher Morley. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. A tight clean and crisp copy with no names dates notations or former owner's book plates. The Easton Press hardcover books
1980TB23790Norwalk Conn.: The Easton Press 1980. Collector's Edition. Near fine in full medium brown leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are gilt. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 7" containing 190 pages of text. With an introduction by Christopher Morley. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. A tight clean and crisp copy with no names dates notations or former owner's book plates. The Easton Press hardcover books
194485618New York: Limited Editions Club 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine. ix 190p. Cloth. Green clamshell case. 33cm. Uneven browning and a little wear on the clamshell. Copy no. 621 of an edition limited to 1500 copies and signed by Bruce Rodger. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1980288169Norwalk. : Easton Press. 1980. Hardcover full brown leather raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon marker. . Bookplate to pastedown slight fading to endpaper edges otherwise fine no dustjacket as issued. . 4to. Easton Press. hardcover books
192819342London: Cresset Press 1928. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 198 pages. Folio 39.5 x 26. Limited edition copy 17 of 250 on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Printed in red and black with wide text margins. Titles and initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe book-label of Philip Duschnes interior contents fresh and bright small nick back cover some natural discoloration to rear cover. Cresset Press hardcover books
123031London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker 1625. Sm. 4to 7 1/16 x 5 9/16 ins.12 340 pp. First leaf is blank. A a B-2V 2X . Original vellum overlapping foredges signs where the thongs were removed; backstrip lettered in ink. Crown watermark. Title page with signature of Thomas Rode dated 1656. A remarkably good copy in unsophisticated original condition some inevitable soiling to the vellum and hinges opening but not splitting. Enclosed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase. § One of the most important books in the English language of enduring influence on Western philosophy and ethics "the distillation of a lifetime’s wisdom by the wisest man of his day" Winterich 23 Books 208. First complete edition and the last printed in the author's lifetime first issue with the imprint reading "Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker" and with "Newly enlarged" on the title-page. The second issue Gibson 14 has imprint reading "John Haviland for Hanna Barret" and has "Newly written" on t-p. Some cataloguers call this 1st Collected or 1st Complete edition. STC indicates that this is a new work different from The Essaies. STC 2nd ed. 1147. Quaritch cat. 436 1930 #102 noted: "In his dedication Bacon says 'I doe now publish my Essayes; which of all my other workes have been most Currant: For that as it seems they come home to Mens Businesse and Bosomes. I have enlarged them both in Number and in Weight; so that they are indeed a New Worke.'" Britwell Handlist p. 52. Grolier Club English 100 p. 26. PMM 119. Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret hardcover books
190632456London: University of Cambridge 1906. 8vo pp. 281. Partially unopened. Uncut. This edition printed in Cambridge type on hand-made paper 1/250 copies of which 225 were for sale in England and the U. S. Text printed from a copy of the edition of 1625; fragment of an essay on Fame first printed in 1657 has been added. Paper over boards. Ex library with stamp in front date slip removed. Cover little faded small tear at top ront of spine o/w a VG tight copy. University of Cambridge unknown books
16391337330London: Printed by Iohn Beale 1639. Newly enlarged. Hardcover. Small Quarto 6 340 42 pages; VG; bound in full speckled calf by Riviere & Son with their stamp gilt rules to board edges rebacked with spine preserved spine paneled gilt with two black morocco labels one mostly missing and gilt titling; all edges gilt; some rubbing and wear to binding; amrbled endpapers; lower fore corner of ffep missing; mild foxing; bookplate of James W. Ellsworth to front pastedown; "Of the colours of good and evill a fragment" has separate title page; register is continuous.; lacking both the first and last black leaves; Table of contents has hand-written essay numbers next to page numbers; CH consignment; shelved case 3. ESTC: S100372. 1337330. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed by Iohn Beale hardcover books
1980217309Norwalk: Easton 1980. hardcover. fine. Frontispiece portrait. 190pp. Short slim 4to gilt-stamped brown leather a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press 1980. Small whitish stain on cover otherwise fine.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
1985UBACESS00fpPenguin Books 1985. Very Good. Bacon Francis. The Essays. Pitcher John. New York: Penguin Books 1985. 287pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Covers laminated by former owner and former owner's name on top of first page. Penguin Books paperback books
