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BRACTON, HENRY DE; S.E. THORNE; G.E.WOODBINE (ED) On the Laws and Customs of England. (4 Vol. set)
Bracton, Henry de.; Thorne, Samuel E.; Woodbine, George E. On the Laws and Customs of England. Edited by George E. Woodbine. Translated, with revisions and notes, by Samuel E. Thorne. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press [in association with the Selden Society], 1968-1977. Reprint. Buffalo: W.S. Hein. 1997. 4 Volumes. ISBN-13: 9781575883861; ISBN-10: 1575883864. Hardcover. New. $425. * Translation of De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, with the Latin and English texts en face. The Latin text is reproduced from the four-volume Yale edition of 1915-1942 by George Woodbine with the widely recognized best English translation by Samuel Thorne. Also contains an extensive critical apparatus, including a pedigree of Bracton's manuscripts. Called by Maitland "the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence," "[t]he work, though unfinished, is the first systematic statement of English law....It has had not only great immediate but permanent influence, as well as being an historical record of the highest importance, and was abridged by Thorton and summarized in Britton and Fleta. It was first printed by Tottell in 1569." Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 148.
Offered for US$ 425.00 by: Lawbook Exchange - Book number: 20570