Selden John Editor (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontispiece colour Plate (illustrator). olive green w/paper spine label, top edge gilt; 403 clean, unmarked pages.illustrated with photogravures on Japan vellum, etchings hand painted India-Plate reproductions and full page portraits of authors.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1982. The July, 1982 issue of Science Digest, Volume 90, Number 7. Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 112 pp. Near Fine - very near fine, with just micro points of edge wear and some age-toning to the newsprint portion of the textblock (one section of the pages in Science Digest at this time in its life was printed on newsprint, and invariably shows some modest toning), and that's about it. See scans. See scanned image of contents page for detail on the diversified articles on Genetic Double Standard; J. Allen Hynek on Matters Celestial, a new monthly feature; Resurrecting Extinct Species ; Government Attempts to Censor Cryptologists; The New Science of Sociobiology; Geothermal Energy; Scientists in Search of the Soul; The Phantom of Saturn's Rings; Microwar; Intergalactic Cafe; Gold Bugs; Einstein on Wheels; Organ Capsules; The Vindication of Vitamin E; The Secret Life of Charles Darwin; and many more items. See scans. L-pr4.

Hardcover. Octavo, xxiv, 200 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is tan with gold print. Boards quarter bound with tan cloth to spine and blue paper to boards; wear to spine caps and corners, mild blemishes on front panel. Text block has spotting to edges, tanning to endpapers, uncut pages. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1399063. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front pastedown. (great britain, england, Arber's English Reprints, table-talk, early works to 1800).

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 288 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Square octavo, [8], 64, 63-452, [2], 453-553, [4] pages. In Very Good condition. Rebound in three-quarter leather (tooled) and dark blue cloth boards. Rebound by Forster Alexander Sondley of North Carolina (late 19th-/early 20th-century). Extensive notes in the hand of an unknown late-17th century owner on front free endpaper and in margins throughout. RW consignment. Shelved Room G. 1352883. Special Collections.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good/Very Good. Second Edition. The second edition of work that first appeared in 1647 . pp (8) + 553 Internally very good with moderate browning and some fairly inoffensive water staining to the fep and also the last few leaves. The boards, which are early perhaps contemporary, have moderate scuffing and wear to the corners. The spine is recent with the binding having been reinforced. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good/Very Good. Second Edition. The second edition of work that first appeared in 1647 . pp (8) + 553 Internally very good with moderate browning and some fairly inoffensive water staining to the fep and also the last few leaves. The boards, which are early perhaps contemporary, have moderate scuffing and wear to the corners. The spine is recent with the binding having been reinforced. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early twentieth-century buckram, two leather spine labels. Ink stamp on title of Association of the Bar Library City of New York Library (library dispersed). Small piece torn from blank outer margin of page 485/486. Selden's commentary begins on page 453. Collation:L [8], 64, 63-553, [3] pp.

Fourth Edition. Large Folio [330 x 210 mm], contemporary full calf, the spine with 5 raised bands on cords. Two Parts in One Volume. Part 1 [i-xvii] 1-203pp, Part 2 [i-iv] 1-188pp [i-iv]. Advert leaf at front. With the bookplate of "Watson Williams, Esq, of Penbedw in the county of Denbigh" superimposed upon the earlier bookplate of Richard Mostyn of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Some minor dampstaining to lower right margins; Complete. Contemporary calf slightly rubbed, minor wear at edges, outer front hinge slightly cracking but holding firm, a nice copy, Very Good overall. Watkin Williams (1742? - 1808), of Penbedw, near Flint, Denbighshire and Erbistock, Flintshire, was a Welsh politician and administrator.

London, 1760. 5th edition (illustrator). First Edition. London, 1760. 5th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden, John [1584-1654] Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor, Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden, Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon, Of Grays Inn, Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar, 1760. [iv], viii, xiii-xix, 203, [1]; xii, 178, [8] pp. Complete. Quarto (11-1/4" x 9-1/4"). Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands to spine, gilt fillets to boards, gilt-stamped title on spine rubbed away. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints and front hinge cracked, negligible light gatoring to spine, some chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and somewhat worn, early armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, occasional light browning to outer edges of margins. $500. * Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon, the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." (DNB). "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" (Sweet & Maxwell). Dictionary of National Biography I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 (9). English Short-Title Catalogue T108171.

Editio secunda [i.e. second edition]. [8], 64, 63-452, 453-553pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. Without blank leaf Mmm4. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, title in manuscript to fore-edge. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of spine, small worm-hole to upper joint. Occasional marginal loss, scattered spotting. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP. A late seventeenth century printing of an anonymous medieval legal treatise which explained many terms extant during the reign of Edward I, at the end of the 1200s - unknown to seventeenth century historians - and elucidated many of the terms recorded in Bracton but little understood. Championed and edited by John Selden, (1584-1664), early scholar of jurisprudence and Jewish Law, this second edition is superior to the first of 1647, with many corrections. ESTC R37347, Wing F1291. Size: Quarto.

2 parts in 1 volume. Corrected edition of one of the most important sources of British law, offering a detailed account of medieval legal practice. The work describes the operation of the courts, the forms of writs, and the interpretation of legal terminology during the reign of Edward I of England. The work was edited by John Selden (1585-1654), but authored by an anonymous author who is sometimes referred to as "Fleta". However, this was not a personal name, but a title derived from the work's preface, which notes that it was written in Fleet Prison.It was John Selden who brought this ancient treatise to the public's attention with the first printed edition in 1647, and his substantial appended dissertation (pp. 453-553), which offers rich commentary on Bracton, Britton, Fleta, and related works. It also provides a compelling examination of the influence of Roman (Imperial) law in England-tracing its introduction, application, duration, and eventual decline within the royal courts at Westminster. While Bracton is rightly celebrated as a foundational figure in the development of English legal thought, Fleta deserves recognition for clarifying and illustrating complex aspects of its predecessor's work.With the bookplate of John Evelyn (1620-1706) mounted on the front pastedown. The boards and spine are slightly scratched, the front joint is somewhat weakened, but the structural integrity of the binding is still intact. The leaves are lightly browned with an occasional stain. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC R37347; OPAC SBN BVEE068186; USTC 3111172; Wing F-1291; cf. DNB 51, p. 218. 18th-century blind-tooled calf, with the title and editor lettered in gold on the spine, a double fillet border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges. With a half-page engraved plate after a Medieval historiated initial on p. 462. Pages: [8], 452, [2 blank], 453-553 pp.

London 1647, 1st ed. Sowerby 1772 (illustrator). First Edition. London 1647, 1st ed. Sowerby 1772. First Printing of Selden's Edition of Fleta and His Ad Fletam Dissertatio Selden, John [1584-1645], Editor. Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani Sic Nuncupatus, Sub Edwardo Rege Primo Seu Circa Annos ab Hinc CCCXL. Ab Anonymo Conscriptus, Atque e Codice Veteri, Autore Ipso Aliquantulum Recentiori, Nunc Primum Typis Editus. Accedit Tractatulus Vetus de Agendi Excipiendique; Formulis Gallicanus, Fet-Assavoir Dictus. Subjungitur Etiam Joan. Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica. London: Typis M.F. Prostant Apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman, 1647. [8], 64, 63-452, [2], 453-553, [3] pp. Pagination irregular. Complete. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Handsome period-style quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, blind ornaments and gilt-ruled raised bands to spine. Negligible light rubbing to boards, some fading to spine. Title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampspotting, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, internally clean. A very nice copy. $750. * First edition. The work by an anonymous author describes the practice of the courts, the forms of writs and an explanation of law terms as they existed during the reign of Edward I. Selden brought this ancient treatise to the public's attention and was instrumental in its publication. While Bracton earns the highest praise as the father of legal learning, Fleta earns a share of it for the illustrations he offered to some of the obscurities found in Bracton. Selden's appended dissertation (pp.453-553) contains many interesting observations about Bracton, Britton, Fleta, and Thornton "and shows what use was made of the Imperial law in England whilst the Romans governed here, at what time it was introduced into this nation, what use was formerly made of it, how long it continued, and when the use of it totally ceased in the King's Courts at Westminster": Bridgman, A Short View of Legal Bibliography 87. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1647. English Short-Title Catalogue R15006.