Search Results: Criminal Law & Procedure from Nostre Livers

New York: New York: published by Gould, Banks and Co. law booksellers, and by W. and A. Gould and Co., Albany. 1840., 1840. Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (9¾ × 6½ in): xxxvi, 701 p. Law calf, gilt label. · Condition: A few scrapes, boards slightly bowed. · Comments: Fourth American edition from the Seventh London edition. Marvin called it "a standard work of great practical utility in England and America." · References: Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847), 67 (citing 1843 edition).

London: London: printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar. M DCC XCII. [1792], 1792. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fair. Description: Vol. 2 (only) of 2. 8vo: [4], 470, 26 p. (the page numbers at the end are in brackets). · Register: 8º: [pi]^2 *B^8 C-Q^8 R^8(-R8) S-2G^8 2H^4 [a]^4 [b]^2 [c]-[d]^4 (c4 is a blank). · Condition: Old calf very worn, top board missing, bottom board detached. Some wear to the fore edge of the title-page, light sporadic foxing, ink smear on p. 103. Despite the absence of R8 in the register, the book is complete. Based on holes in the inner margin, it appears that the book was issued in parts stab-sewn and subsequently bound up as a single volume. · Comments: Half of the volume consists of William Hudson's "A Treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber." Bound at the end is a "Register of Law Publications" for Easter Term 1791 through Hillary Term 1792, 26 pages, separately numbered. · References: Johnson 94 (1 copy… Read More

London: In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for F. Gyles over-against Grays-Inn in Holborn, T. Woodward at the Half-Moon between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-street, and C. Davis in Pater-noster-row. M DCC XXXVI. [1736], 1736. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Two volumes, folio (12½ × 8¼ in): portrait frontis., [12], xix, [1], 146, *143-*146, 147-710 p.; [6], 156, *149-*156, 157-414, [194], [1] p. (Recto of last leaf contains bookseller's ads.) Contemporary calf. · Register: 2º: [pi]² [a]-[b]² [A]-[E]² B-2O² 2P²(+[chi]²) 2Q-8R² 8S1; [pi]1 [a]² A-2R² *2R² 2S-7Q² [chi]1 · Condition: Joints cracked, scraped, worn at edges, cracking on spine, leather separating from top board of first volume. Portrait frontispiece torn in lower margin, without loss. Light foxing. Early armorial bookplate of William Pym Esq. · Comments: First edition. · References: Johnson 92 (10 copies); Bridgman 147; Worrall 85; S&M 1:362(36); Holdsworth,… Read More

London: ¶ Londini in ædibus Richardi Tottelli. [Richard Tottell] Anno Domini. 1580. [colophon:] [fleuron] Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Rychard Tottel, the xvi. day of March. ¶ Anno domini a verbo nato. 1580., 1580. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. folio (11 × 8 in): [46], cccxxvi l. Early calf. · Register: 2º: ^[pi]A^4 A-H^4 ¶^4 ¶¶^6 ²A-4L^4 4M^6 (in this copy, the gatherings signed '¶' and '¶¶' are bound after the preliminary matter). · Condition: Rebacked, front joint cracked, cords secure. Numerous early marginal annotations. · Comments: First printed around 1514 from a manuscript now lost, the book of assizes is unique among the year books for reporting cases on circuit in the country, rather than those argued at the bar in Westminster. In addition to reprinting Rastell's preface to the first edition, this… Read More

London: London: printed for the author, by Cooper and Graham, Bow Street, Covent Garden; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster. 1795., 1795. 4th Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 4to (11 × 9 in): 861, [91] p. Contemporary calf, morocco title label. · Condition: Joints cracked but boards secure, wear to edges. Signed and numbered (586) by Addington. · Comments: Fourth edition, first published 1775. Arranged by subject matter and presented in tabular form, the work covers not only the statutes, but also the common law crimes. · References: S&M 1:358(2); ESTC T88438.

London: London, printed for the Company of Stationers. 1635., 1635. 5th or later Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. folio (11 × 7¼ in): [10], 136, 133-280, 277-410, [9] p. Later half-calf over marbled boards. · Register: 2º: A^6(-A1) B-L^6 M^8 N-Z^6 2A^8 2B-N^6. · Condition: Extremities rubbed. Pages clean and bright. Lacks A1, the initial blank. · Comments: Two rival editions were published in 1635, the result of a controversy between the assignees of John More, who had the patent for the publication of law books, and the Stationers Company, which claimed the copyright, having first published the book in 1618 when the English Stock owned the law patent. It is unclear whether Dalton was involved with either publication; the pagination (including irregularities) of both 1635 editions is the same as the 1630 edition. · References: STC 6211; S107283.

London: London: printed by W. Strahan and W. Woodfall, Law-Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty ; for T. Cadell, in the Strand. M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785], 1785. Hardcover. Good. Description: Four volumes, complete. 8vo (8¾ × 5¾ in): xxviii, 540 p.; t-p., 624 p.; t-p., 640 p.; t-p., 451, [166] p. (The last leaf of the fourth volume contains ads.) Contemporary sheep. · Register: 8º: A^8 a^6 B-2L^8 2M^4 2N^2; [pi]1 A-2Q^8; [pi]1 A-2R^8; [pi]1 B-2H^8 2I^3 *2H-*2P^8 *2Q^2 · Condition: Joints cracked but boards secure, some scrapes, edges worn, head and tail of spines slightly chipped, gilt labels all intact. Modern bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Pages toned, some with mild foxing, but clean. · Comments: Fifteenth and final edition by Burn. In England, justices of the peace had broad powers in both criminal and local administrative matters. For many petty offenses, they had power to try and convict the accused summarily, without a jury.… Read More

London: London: printed for Mess. J. R. & J. Hazard; W. Mears; J. Stone; J. Mechell; J. Applebee; C. Corbett; Ward and Chandler. M D CC XXXVII. [1737], 1737. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Folio (14¾ × 10¼ in): iv, 922, [8] p. (last page ads). Early calf. · Register: 2º: [A]² B-11A² 11B1 [*]² **². · Condition: Expertly rebacked and edged, with new label; toned and lightly foxed; fore edges of first two leaves and top edge of final leaf reinforced; dampstain in upper corner of first quarter of text; last few leaves rather worn with a dampstain at the top. · Comments: First edition. There were four editions of the State Trials in the eighteenth century, each fuller the last. Although the accounts come from many sources, most having no legal training, some having partisan interest, they were nevertheless a considerable source of learning about criminal law and procedure. The frequent pleas of the accused for the… Read More

Oxford: Oxford, printed at the Clarendon Press. M DCC LXII. [1762] Sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Temple-Bar, London., 1762. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Folio (12½ × 8 in): [4], viii, [4], 412, [19] p. (Errata on verso of t-p.; ads on verso of second leaf; a half-title precedes each discourse.) Full calf. · Register: 2º: [pi]² a-c² A-5Q². · Condition: Boards rubbed and detached, title label missing. Early armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Clayton on front pastedown. Private owner's name stamped in lower margin of pp. 101, 195. Sheets A-E lightly foxed; some spotting to 5A-D. · Comments: First edition, the only one printed at the Clarendon Press, in its elegant style. Holdsworth called Foster's book the "most remarkable and most scholarly of all the reports" of the eighteenth century. The four discourses (on high treason, homicide, accomplices in capital offenses, and observations on… Read More

London: London: printed for W. Clarke and Sons, Law Booksellers, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn. 1814., 1814. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Description: Volume 1 (of 2) only. 8vo (8¾ × 5½ in): xvi, 354 p. Modern red buckram, gilt title label. · Condition: Very good. · Comments: This first volume contains the analytic discussion of the law; the second volume contained only the precedents (i.e., forms).

London: London: printed by H. Fry, Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry. MDCCXCVI. [1796], 1796. 2nd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (8 × 5½ in): [iii]-xviii, [6], 473, [1], xxviii p., folding table. Half-calf over marbled boards. · Register: 8º: [a]^8 b^4 A-2G^8 2H-K^4 (this copy lacks [a]1, the half-title, and 2K4, a blank). · Condition: Joints cracked, top board held by two cords. Half-title and final blank absent. · Comments: Second edition. · References: ESTC T133506 (variant with p. xvi [a8v] correctly numbered).