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London, 1684. 9th ed. "Virtually a Legal Encyclopaedia" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentary upon Littleton, Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law It Self. Carefully Corrected: With an Alphabetical Table. To this Edition is Added Two Learned Tracts of the Same Authors; The First, His Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, Entituled, The Statute of Levying Fines: And the Second, Of Bail and Maineprize. London: Printed by William Rawlins [et al.], 1684. [x], 28 pp., 395, [31] ff. With a folding table of consanguinity; lacking portraits of Coke and Littleton. Folio (11-3/4" x 7-1/4"; 29.7 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and blind (formerly gilt) stamped title to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Rubbing and some scuffing and wear, front board separated but secured by cords, rear joint starting at ends, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and worn, rear hinge starting, minor worming to pastedowns. Light toning to interior, negligible light foxing and soiling to a few leaves, small clean tear to table not affecting legibility. Nineteenth-century owner signature (of Joseph White, Hereford) to verso of front free endpaper, owner signatures (of Edward Allen, dated 1748, and Henry Allen, dated 1774) to title page, brief annotations (case citations) to a few pages in an early hand. $450. * Ninth edition. Coke's Institutes, which eventually comprised four volumes, are thought to be the first textbooks on common law. Taken together, they provide a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the law as it stood in Coke's lifetime. As noted by Carter and Muir, they became "the basis of the constitution of the realm." Both Coke and the Institutes remain influential in contemporary Anglo-American systems; over 70 U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1790 have cited the Institutes, including 21st-century landmark cases such as Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The first Institutes, better known as Coke on Littleton, contains the text of Sir Thomas Littleton's Tenures with extensive commentary. Walker describes it as "the fruit of a lifetime's study" and a virtual "legal encyclopaedia, the entries hung on pegs suggested b.
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