Samuel Thorne Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo, vii, 194 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is grey with brown print. Boards in grey cloth with brown print. Originally published San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, 1942. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1396348. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear/tear to jacket with loss. Jacket in protective mylar. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good or better. Staple bound green wraps with rubbing to spine edges, else minor wear, clean, no spine crease, internally clean and unmarked. 91 pages. Note: cover title "A Villager" and spine with no printing as published. SUBTITLE CONTINUES: Dana Lawrence of Au Sable River Valley, Adirondacks. Dictated by the Author at the Request of His Friend and Employer Samuel Thorne (Helen Broe, stenographer). Sarah D. Lowrie (Mabel Lawrence, et a)". 91 pages, uncommon. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.…

First Edition. ISBN-13: 9781584773559; ISBN-10: 1584773553. Thorne, Samuel E., Editor. A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes. With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions. Edited From Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Originally published: San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773559. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Reprint of first edition. Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Thorne's edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [?1540-1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. "Professor Thorne . has carried out his difficult task with great skill and has prefixed an introduction which can be regarded as the most authoritative and most richly documented discussion as yet upon the problems of statutory interpretation from the later fourteenth century . to the age of Coke." T.F.T. Plucknett, Law Quarterly Review 60:242 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810. …