Harebotle Grimston Translator and Editor (1 results)
More imagesTHE FIRST AND SECOND PARTS OF THE REPORTS OF SIR GEORGE CROKE KNIGHT, Late, One of the Justices of the Court of KINGS - BENCH; and Formerly, One of the Justices of the Court of COMMON - BENCH, of Such Select Cases As Were Adjudged in the in Said Courts, During the Whole Reign of the Late King JAMES & ELIZABETH
Croke, Sr. George, Knight - Harebotle Grimston (translator and editor)
Published by Place, London, 1661
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition is Good, bound in rebacked full leather, with five raised bands, embossed decorations and three affixed labels at spine. A few small scuffs to exterior, a few bumps to edges. Some dampstaining, foxing and dampspotting and darkening to interior. Occasional small, neat markings to margins of text; small, neat markings to a few lists in both volumes. Volume the First includes Epistle Dedicatory [8 printed pages, written by Harebotle], [Censors approval page], A Table [19 printed pages], 1-920, Errata, A perfect Table Referring to Several Points of Law, Argued and Reseolved in this Book [A-L], plus A Catalogue of Law Books, and such as appertain to the Law [three printed pages]. Volume the Second includes a Dedication to the Students of common-laws [three printed pages], [Censors approval page], 1-700, An Alphabetical Table of the Names of Principle Cases, etc. [12 printed pages], plus the Table of the Judges & etc. [8 printed pages, with Errata printed bottom half of page 8], plus An Exact Table of the Principle Points of Law, etc. [21 printed pages]. Frontispiece and title page present in each volume. This set includes Croke's reports during the time time of James and Elizabeth. Croke's works hold a "considerable place in the authoritative literature of the common law" (The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1558-1603, edited by P. W. Hasler). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…
