Reports of Diverse Choice Cases in Law, Taken by those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas
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Reports of Diverse Choice Cases in Law, Taken by those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas
Brownlow, Richard; John Goldesborough
Printed by F.L. for Matthew Walbanke, at Grays-Inne Gate, and Henry Twyford, in Vine Court in the Middle Temple, 1654
[Early English Law] Small 4to. Bound in later 3/4 leather over marbled boards. [4], 241, [14] p. New spine. Lacks the frontispiece portrait. Some toning, scattered spotting. Wing B5199, (ESTC R236856). Sweet & Maxwell I, page 195.
Interesting provenance: From the library of Matthew Davenport Hill (1792-1872), the British lawyer and penologist. Hill's signature on title page. Many of Hill's reform recommendations on the treatment of criminals were enacted into English law.