first edition
1927
by Holdsworth, William S.
1927. Holdsworth, W.S. A History of English Law. Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1922-1926. Volumes I-IX, in 9 books (of what became a 17 volume set). Original cloth with gilt stamped spines. Light shelfwear. Light rubbing and staining to spines. Small tear to bottom corner of front pastedown in volume one with some small annotations to rear free endpaper, otherwise all volumes internally clean and secure. $450. * Volumes I-IX of a 17 volume set. The first three are third editions, the others are first editions. (All of the volumes were revised and the set ultimately comprised seventeen volumes.) Contents: I. The judicial system; II. (449-1066) Anglo-Saxon Antiquities; III. (1066-1485) The Mediaeval common law; IV-IX. (1485-1700) The Common Law and its Rivals. "The only complete history of the English law in detail. Also much essential bibliographical information.... No review can give an adequate idea of the masses of valuable learning contained in these volumes, the extent and variety of the ground which has been covered, or the tireless labour and sober scholarship which have been devoted to the task.": T.F.T. Plucknett, Harvard Law Review 38:698-701 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 139.
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