- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB
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Condition: Used
£ 348.25
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Copy of a 1791 Summary of Bankruptcy Law that Belonged to a Prominent Philadelphia Lawyer [Bankruptcy]. [Great Britain]. A Succinct Digest of the Laws Relating to Bankrupts: In Which All the Reported, And Several Manuscript Cases Upon this Important Subject, From the First Passing of the Bankrupt Laws, In the Time of Henry the Eighth, To the Commencement of Michaelmas Term in the Thirty-First Year of George the Third, Are Inserted, And the Respective Rights and Duties of the Commissioners, Creditors and Bankrupt Discussed and Explained: Together with the Several Modes of Proceeding, And Most Approved Precedents, From the Act of Bankruptcy and the Opening of the Commission, To the Last Examination and Allowance of the Certificate, And the Whole System of the Bankrupt Laws Rendered Easy and Intelligible to Every Capacity. Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, For E. Lynch [et al.], 1791. [xvi], 192, lxxii, [26] pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5"; 19.8 x 12.5 cm). Modern quarter cloth over plain paper boards, lettering piece and gilt fillets and title to spine, endpapers renewed. Minor soiling to exterior, front hinge split (before title page), rear hinge starting (before rear free endpaper). Moderate toning to interior, very light foxing in a few places, library punch stamp and ink shelf number to title page affecting text without loss to legibility, early owner signature of "E Shippen Burd" to title page and first pages of preface and table of contents. $450. * Reissue of the first edition, London, 1791. As indicated in the preface, this book was intended for "merchants and traders" rather than "professors of the law." The contents are accordingly "divested, as much as it is possible, of technical expressions and profession idioms, and arranged in such order, that the several parts may become perspicuous and familiar to every capacity" ([xiv]-[xvi]). In his Present State of Printing and Bookselling in America (1796), Henry Lemoine noted that Irish editions of English law books were highly sought after by American lawyers. Because they were typically produced in smaller, more compact formats than their bulky London counterparts, they were far easier to pack into saddlebags while riding legal circuits across the expanding American frontier. This copy features the ownership signatures of Edward Shippen Burd [1779-1848], a wealth.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Succinct Digest of the Laws Relating to Bankrupts.
- Author
- Bankruptcy; Great Britain
- Publication year
- 1791
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Scholarly, Bankruptcy
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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. specializes in all aspects of law and legal history. Our publication program offers reprints of over 800 landmark works as well as original books. We invite offers of antiquarian, scholarly and current practice materials. Founded in 1983, we currently serve thousands of individuals and institutions worldwide. Law books - Out of print, Scholarly, Rare, and Reprints of Legal Classics. We also handle secondhand primary and secondary source material for practicing lawyers. Generally someone is available Monday-Friday 9:00 - 6:00PM(Eastern Time). Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.…
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