The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes. 1644. BOUND WITH; The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. 1669

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Edward Coke,

The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes. 1644. BOUND WITH; The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. 1669

Printed at London: by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, [1644] AND; London: printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake, A. Roper, F. Tyton, T. Dring, T. Collins, J. Place, W. Place, J. Starkey, T. Bassett, R. Pawlett, S. Heyricke, and G. Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborne, 1669.

Parts Three and Four bound together, the 1644 First Edition and the 1669 Fourth Edition.

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Parts Three and Four bound together, the 1644 First Edition and the 1669 Fourth Edition.

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Parts Three and Four bound together, the 1644 First Edition and the 1669 Fourth Edition.

The volume(s) measure about 29.2 cm. by 19 cm. by 4.8 cm.

Each leaf measures about 283 mm. by 185 mm.

The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes. Authore Edw. Coke Milite, I.C. MDCXLIV. Printed at London: by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, [1644].

The volume is paginated as follows: [12], 243, [3] p.

The volume collates: (A)4, B – 2K4, 2L5

Lacking the original portrait, instead the portrait from the 1669 Fourth Part bound with this volume, has been inserted in its place. With the final epilogue leaf. Wing C4960

BOUND WITH

The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. The Fourth Edition; with an Alphabetical Table, not heretofore printed. Authore Edw. Coke milite. London: printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake, A. Roper, F. Tyton, T. Dring, T. Collins, J. Place, W. Place, J. Starkey, T. Bassett, R. Pawlett, S. Heyricke, and G. Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborne, 1669.

The volume is paginated as follows: [10], 364, [36] p.

The volume collates: A-3A⁴ a-h² chi1.

Complete including index, but with the portrait bound before the Third Part.

Wing C4931

In full contemporary calf, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands. Older title inscription in ink in the second compartment from the top. The boards with corners renewed (old repair). The spine cracked top and bottom on both boards halfway to the first and last cords.

Internally some browning to the edges and mild toning to the pages but otherwise little in the way of stains or foxing.

The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke. They were first published, in stages, between 1628 and 1644. Widely recognized as a foundational document of the common law, they have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, including several landmark cases. For example, in Roe v. Wade (1973), Coke’s Institutes are cited as evidence that under old English common law, an abortion performed before quickening was not an indictable offence. In the much earlier case of United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895), Coke’s Institutes are quoted at some length for their definition of monopolies. The Institutes’s various reprinted editions well into the 19th century is a clear indication of the long lasting value placed on this work throughout especially the 18th century in Britain and Europe.

 

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