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Published by William Brown (Edinburgh); John Mofman (Printers), GB, 1727
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Third Edition with Additions. Inscription of owner at start of book. Full brown leather with five raised bands and burgundy label lettered in gold (part missing) to spine. 170 x 100 mm. 22 + 413 + 32 pages. "Jas. Alexander writer Dunfermline" verso blank before title page. IA pricked out on rear endpapers. Fairly clean tight text is dust marked at edges. Covers quite worn but no major faults.
Published by Printed for William Brown and John Mosman, his Majesties Printers, Edinburgh, 1727
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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8vo, pp. [xxiv], 413, [33]. Contemporary calf, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco label. Some scattered toning, marginal worm-trails to index. Rubbed, particularly to spine, spine-ends rather worn, label chipped. Crossed-out ink inscription to rear pastedown signed Mary. John Spotiswood (1667-1728) qualified as an advocate in 1696 and began to teach law in 1702, producing this textbook as an aid to his teaching. The first edition was in 1707, with new ones following at roughly 10-year intervals and the spelling of the author?s name slowly acquiring additional silent letters, until Spotiswood had become Spottiswoode by the 1750s.
Published by Edinburgh: Printed by John Moncur, and sold by William Broun Bookseller, at his shop, on the North-Side of the Street, a little above the Cross., 1715
Seller: West Grove Books, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Sm 8vo. [24], 408, [28] pp. The second edition with additions. In contemporary blind-ruled calf, later letter-piece gilt. With index and catalogue. All original blanks present. Front pastedown with excised ownership inscription (?) and title page rubbed around the margins, now fully supported and not affecting text. John Spotiswood established Spottiswood's College of Law around 1703 to compensate for the lack of a legal curriculum at the University of Edinburgh, and first published the Stile of Writs in 1707 as a supplementary textbook to Sir George McKenzie's Institutes for the use of his students. ESTC T77996.
Published by Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman, and sold by William Brown, 1727., 1727
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
8vo, pp. [24], 413, [3] (blank), [32] (index and advertisements); slightly dusty but a very good copy, with 11 pages of manuscript additions bound in; ownership inscriptions to front endpaper and title of Andrew Jamison, bought 1733, later given to Niel Ballingall, the annotations probably in the latter's hand; bound in contemporary calf, rubbed, spine chipped at head, rear joint cracked.Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall (1750 1843), factor to the Balfour family at Balbirnie, Fife. Provenance: bought by Andrew Jamison for 5s on 13 August 1733. Given later 'By J J' (presumably a later Jamison) to Neil Ballingall (1750 1843), factor of Balbirnie. Michael Tracy, in The Ballingall Factors of Balbirnie, records that Niel Ballingall was born of humble parents and after growing up in Kennoway Parish, Fife, seems to have been apprenticed to 'Mr. Jamieson, writer at Brymers Newton west of Kennoway where he had the benefit of his library, of which he made the most diligent use'. He would continuously serve the Balfour family whose residence was Balbirnie House until 1843, being succeeded by both his son and grandson who finally retired in 1916. Here Ballingall's notes deal with the conflicts between Scottish and English statutes relating to land tenure, in particular drawing attention to the problems caused by the absence of a Scottish Parliament, observing: 'Bonds of this kind [cautionary for keeping the peace] since the taking away of our Parliament are now gone into Disuetude, Because Obligations of this kind are now since the Union done by Enactments in the Sherriff or other Judges Court Books' (opposite p. 46). Language: English.