Bibliotheca legum Angliæ, part I, or, A catalogue of the common and statue law books of this realm : and some others relating thereto ; giving an account of their several editions, ancient printers, dates, and prices, and wherein they differ
A new ed., corr. and arranged in a more perspicuous method; and interspersed with observations on the principal works, collected from the best authorities.
A new ed., corr. and arranged in a more perspicuous method; and interspersed with observations on the principal works, collected from the best authorities.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for E. Brooke (successor to J. Worrall and B. Tovey),
Date of Publication
1788.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 17 cm
Notes
Vol. 2 has title: Bibliotheca legum Angliæ, part II. Containing a general account of the laws and law-writers of England, from the earliest times to the reign of Edw. III. As also of the public records and other authentic law mss. the statutes, and the several collections and editions thereof; the reports, or collections of adjudged cases in the courts of law and equity; together with an account of the principal works upon the law and constitution, published during the present reign. Compiled by Edward Brooke.
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for W. Strahan, J. Pote, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, G. Robinson, T. Cadel, J. White, W. Flexney, E. Brooke, J. Hayes, M. Hingeston, W. Fox, and Wheildon and Co.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXX [1780]
Physical Description
5 v. ; 37 cm (fol.)
Notes
Vol. 5 has misprinted imprint date of MDCLXXX.
Vol. 1: xii, 670 p.; v. 2: vii, [1], 699, [1] p.; v. 3: viii, 588 p.; v. 4: viii, 583, [1] p.; v. 5: viii. 752 p.
Includes indexes.
LC copy has binder's title: Comyns's Digest ... 2nd edition.
Handwritten of title page: By Dr. Woodeson, Ninerian Professor at Oxford.
English short title catalogue,
Contents
Lecture the first: Of the laws of man's nature --- Lecture the second: Of civil, positive, or instituted law --- Lecture the third: Of the several species of magistracy --- Lecture the fourth: Of the law of nations --- Lecture the fifth: Of the laws of England, in a general view, and with respect to the various sources from which they have been derived --- Lecture the sixth: Of the study and profession of the laws of England, with a delineation of the plan pursued in the remaining lectures.
Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LIX-LXIV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. I-IV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXV-CIII signed and enacted in the months of February and March by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Laws enacted in the second sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: C-Y² [Z]².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. V-XXXII signed and enacted in the months of February through April by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
With: Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the third sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : [T. Bradford, 1786].