Les Reports des Divers Select Matters & Resolutions des Reverend.

An Authority Second Only to the Year Books Dyer, [Sir James] [1512-82]. Les Reports des Divers Select Matters & Resolutions des Reverend Judges & Sages del Ley, Touchant & Concernant Mults Principal Points Occurrent Estre Debate per Eux: En le Several Regnes de les Tres-Hault & Excellent Princes, Le Roys Hen. 8. & Edw. 6. & Le Roignes Mar. & Eliz. Collect & Report Per Tres-Reverend Judge, Sr. Jacques Dyer Chivaler; Jades Chief Justice del Common Banke en le Temps du Roigne Elizabeth. Ove Deux Novel Tables, Lum Conteinant le Principal Choses de Several Matters en le Dit Livre; Ove References al Auters Livres en Tiels Cases. Le Auter, Le Nosmes des Touts les Cases in le Mesme. London: Excudebant Johannes Streater & Henricus Twyford, Delegati, 1672. [8], 377, [8] ff. "La Table al Reportes." lacking. Folio (11-1/2" x 7-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, later gilt institutional name to front board and foot of spine, rebacked and recornered in period style with raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block, endleaves renewed, hinges mended. Light rubbing, moderate scuffing and scratching to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped, later library bookplate and small circular sticker to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light browning in places, light foxing and soiling and faint dampstaining in a few places, tears to edges of a few leaves not affecting text, ink library stamps to title page and a few other leaves, early (illegible) ownership signature to head of title page, early annotations to several leaves. $250. * Later edition. First published in 1585, Dyer's Reports contain cases heard in the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, Exchequer and Chancery from 1513 to 1582. One of the first publications of its kind, it was also the first to be referred to regularly as "Reports." A work of great authority (second only to that of the Year Books), it went through six editions in Law-French, the last one in 1688. English Short-Title Catalogue R227824. …