A New Law Dictionary: containing, the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law; and also the Whole Law, and the Practice thereof, Under all the Heads and Titles of the same. Together with such Informations relating thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted from all Dictionaries, Abridgements, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Publishedto this Time. And fitted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practices of the Law, Members of Parliament, and other Gentlemen, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, &c. The Second Edition corrected, with large Additions.

Giles Jacob

Published by J. and J. Knapton; D. Midwinter; A. Ward; et al., London, 1732

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A smart copy of this legal dictionary, the impressive, enlarged second edition. The second edition folio of this impressive legal dictionary. First published in 1729, for the same conger of publishers. Bound in full calf, rebacked with the original boards retained. Marbled end papers renewed, original blanks retained. Signatures run as follows: A-5G4, 5H2. Collated, complete. Bookplate of Michael Cecil de Courcey Peele to the front paste down. Giles Jacob was a legal and literary author. Whilst Jacob's legal works are his most well-known, his ouevre was incredibly diverse. Among his literary works appear; The Rape of the Smock, 1717, a parody of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and a farce Love in a Wood, or, The Country Squire, 1714. Pope's referred to the legal author in book three of the 1728 edition of The Dunciad as the following: "Jacob, the Scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,Nor less revere him, Blunderbuss of Law." Bound in full calf, rebacked with the original boards retained. Marbled end papers renewed, original blanks retained. Bookplate of Michael Cecil de Courcey Peele to paste down. Prominent marks and loss to the original boards. Renewed spine, very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Light tiding to the gutter of occasional leaves. Pages clean with scattered spotting and marginal age toning, heavier to some leaves. The odd closed tear to extremities, text unobscurred. Ink inscription to upper title page. Very Good Indeed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A New Law Dictionary: containing, the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law; and also the Whole Law, and the Practice thereof, Under all the Heads and Titles of the same. Together with such Informations relating thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted from all Dictionaries, Abridgements, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, ...
• Publisher: J. and J. Knapton; D. Midwinter; A. Ward; et al., London
• Publication Date: 1732
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Book Type: book