The First Part of Symboleography [with] Second Part, London, 1647-41

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London: 1647 & 1641. 2 vols. Final editions. One of the Earliest English Texts to Address Conveyancing [C] West, William [1568-1594]. The First Part of Symboleographie: Which May be Termed the Art, Or Description, Of Instruments and Presidents. First Collected by William West of the Inner Temple Esquire. And Since Augmented with Divers New Presidents not Formerly Printed. London: Printed by Miles Flesher, 1647. [624] pp. [With] West, William. The Second Part of Symboleography, Newly Corrected and Amended, And Very Much Enlarged in All the Foure Severall Treatises: 1. Of Fines and Concords. 2. Of Common Recoveries. 3. Of Offences and Indictments. 4. Of Compromises and Arbitrements. Whereunto is Annexed Another Treatise of Equitie: The Jurisdiction, And Proceedings of the High Court of Chancerie; Of Supplications, Bils, And Answers; And of Certaine Writs and Commissions Issuing Thence, And There also Returnable: Likewise much Augmented with Divers Presidents, For the Same Purpose, Beginning at the 144. Section, And Continuing to the end of Bils and Answers. With an Addition of Some Necessary Examplars to be Used in his Majesties Court of Exchequer, Wards and Liveries, And Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also Added a Table for the More Easie and Readie Finding of Matters, Herein Contained. London: Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young, 1641. [ii], 350, [8] ff. Quarto (9" x 7"). Later library cloth, red and black calf lettering pieces to spines, endpapers added. Moderate soiling and shelfwear, light chipping to lettering pieces. Light browning to interiors, early annotation to front endleaf of First Part, title page of Second Part partially detached with faint dampstaining along gutter, faint embossed library stamp to title page of Second Part, brief library marks to versos of both title pages. $500. * Final editions. West's Symboleography is the most influential works in the history of English law. First published in 1590 and 1593, these two books are complete in themselves and bibliographically distinct. (The volumes were often bound together or bound as sets.) Taken together, they form a general practical treatise on English law. They are historically significant because they are among the earliest texts to address conveyancing. "West's Symboleographie has always been esteemed a book of authority.and contains not only precedents in c.

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The First Part of Symboleography [with] Second Part, London, 1647-41
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West, William
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1647
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London: 1647 & 1641. 2 vols. Final editions
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