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"The Complement of Sir W. Blackstone's Commentaries" Bound With "A Work of Great Authority" for Special Pleaders Wooddeson, Richard [1745-1822]. Elements of Jurisprudence, Treated of in the Preliminary Part of a Course of Lectures on the Laws of England. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1783. [iv], 118 pp. [Bound with] Heath, Sir Robert [1575-1649]. Cunningham, Timothy [d.1789], Editor. Maxims and Rules of Pleading, In Actions Real, Personal, and Mixed, Popular and Penal [.] First Published in Octavo, in the Year 1694, From the Manuscript of Sir Robert Heath. Now Re-Published in Quarto, With Notes, Observations, And Additions of New Matter to Every Title, From All the Late Reports and Abridgments, By T. Cunningham, Esq. London: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, 1771. x, 252, [8] pp. Together two works in one volume. Quarto (10" x 8"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind fillets to board, raised bands and retained existing lettering pieces to spine, hinges mended, some scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, some wear to corners. Moderate toning, somewhat heavier in places, occasional faint dampspotting and foxing, crease to leaf Y of Maxims (pp. 161-162) and minor loss to headline of following leaf due to printer error, two early owner signatures to title page of Elements, one (possibly of Philadelphia lawyer William H. Tod [1772-1833]) struck through. A very good copy. $2,000. * Elements: first edition; Maxims: second and final edition, one of two issues from 1771. Wooddeson was elected a Vinerian Scholar in 1766, became a Vinerian Fellow in 1776 and was Vinerian Professor from 1777 to 1793. He was steeped in Blackstone's work, and he strove to supplement it. "Dr. Wooddeson's Lectures form, in a measure, the complement of Sir W. Blackstone's Commentaries, for he supplies some deficiencies in the production of his predecessor, and treats more in detail, some topics, but slightly noticed by him. Though of acknowledged merit, as to learning, method of arrangement, and accuracy of rules, they do not seem to have attained so great a reputation as their real worth entitles them to. In point of style, and beauty of narration, they follow the Commentaries, haud non passibus auquis" (Marvin). Holdsworth describes each chapter i. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 71494
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