Origines Juridicales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryall, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law Writers, Law Books, Grants and Settlements of Estates, Degree of Serjeant, Innes of Court and Chancery
Origines juridicales, or Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryall, punishment in cases criminal, law writers, law books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, innes of court and chancery : also a chronologie of the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, & serjeants at law
William Dugdale
London : printed by F. and T. Warren, for the author, MDCLXVI, 1666
[The History of the British Courts : An Extra-illustrated edition: most copies of the first edition were destroyed during the Great London Fire of 1666] Folio. Rebacked in later leather, with new red leather spine label. Gilt lettering. Title in red and black. [12], 332, [4], 96, 95-115, [3] p., extra-illustrated with five portraits, 5 full-page portraits by David Loggan (2) or Wenceslas Hollar (3) of Lord Clarendon, Edward Coke, John Clenche, Randolph Crew, Robert Heath. Extra illustrations include 2 portraits of Hale, and Lord Guildford by Vertue; Westminster Hall; Portraits of Queen Elizabeth with Lord Walsingham; Chief Justice Anderson by Fairthorne; Chief Justice Hobart, by Passesus; Cf. Just. Croke, by Vaughan; Two plates of St. Mary's Church, Temple; Lord Thurlow, by Loughborouh; etc. The "Chronica series" covers the period 1067-1666.
Includes numerous ephemera related to this book from the early 20th century. From the library of the Hon. Charles F. Stein, Rolland Park, Baltimore, MD. Stein (1866–1939) was a judge in the Baltimore, Maryland City courts. Refs: ESTC R5005. Wing D2488.