Plummer John Intro (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Light tan paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As new/as issued, gold color illus. dust jacket now in mylar. 3rd ptg.: 2002. viii,353 pp. Please note that by this printing date (2002), Braziller was no longer issuing this title in slipcase, as it had the first two printings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). Very Good + (Slipcase). An excellent copy, but for sunning and shelfwear to slipcase and previous owner's bookplate and signature. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Over 150 color facsimile plates, 359 pages, small 8vo, gilt-stamped faux-parchment boards, pictorial board slipcase. New York: George Braziller, (1966). A fine copy. Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript belonging to the Guennol Collection and The Pierpont Morgan.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). Very Good + (Slipcase). An excellent copy, but for sunning and shelfwear to slipcase and previous owner's bookplate and signature. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good+. Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript belonging to The Guennol Collection and The Pierpont Morgan Library. Hardcover with no dust jacket in slipcase; 359pp including appends; 24pp text followed by the color plates on recto pp followed by appends; no publication date, probably mid-1960s; tan cover has some cracking to front gutter, small chip top of spine; errata sheet laid in; prev. owner's name stamped on first page; paper label on slipcasehas some stains & slipcase has some sunning to edges. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Not Issued. 1st Edition. Tan faux vellum, lettered and with front cover armorial crest in gold foil. As issued. Slipcase sunned on rear panel, Near Fine. 359 pp., illus. in color. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Near Fine. Later printing. Gently pressed spine tips, still fine, in near fine slipcase. Publisher's full tan cloth, stamped in gilt, housed in publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; slipcase. Full-color reproductions from the illuminated manuscript belonging to the Guennol Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Library. Book is a bit scuffed along joints and at spine tips, otherwise fine, in lightly rubbed slipcase.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket issued. 160 colour plates, appendices; 359pp. orig. white cloth gilt, lower hinge cracked.

ISBN-13: 9781886363793; ISBN-10: 188636379X. Fortescue, Sir John. The Governance of England: Otherwise Called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy. A Revised Text edited with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices by Charles Plummer. London: Oxford University Press, 1885. xxiii, 387 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363793; ISBN-10: 188636379X. Hardcover. New. $70. * "This work cannot be described as the first law book written in English, but it has the distinction of being the first book about law in that language." Winfield, The Chief Sources of English Legal History 317-318. Examines and compares the value of absolute and limited monarchy in the governments of France and England. First published in 1714, this edition, which was edited by Christopher Plummer, was published in 1885. Winfield also describes this edition as "The best edition." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 365. …