Author: [ Rastell,John]
Title: LES TERMES DE LA LEY Or, Certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use, expounded and explained, Now Corrected and Enlarged, With many Great and Useful Additions throughout the whole Book, never Printed in any other Impression.
Description: London, Printed Samuel Roycroft & James Rawlins Assigns of Richard & Edward Atkins 1708 . 8vo [over 7.7 inches] Near contemporary tan leather binding on 5 raised bands with blind ruling + blind decoration along the hinges and gilt dentelles [chipped down to headband or just below at head and foot of spine/lower hinge split to bottom compartment/some wear to edges and tips/ some spotting or marking] titlepage + "to reader" + 556pp +[one blank leaf] Parallel colums of French and English throughout with the English in Black Letter & the french in Roman font. The pages are slightly tanned to the edges and the top margin is sometimes very close to or just touching,the running headline, but only on page three is the headline cut into. Minimal foxing to beginning and end but all pages unmarked,not torn, and crisp and no loose pages. This is a later edition of the first dictionary of legal terms and is thus in alphabetical order. The first edition was the first Law Dictionary as well as being the first English dictionary and had originally a title in Latin. It went through many editions down to 1821 and now modern day facsimiles. Any 16th century editions are scarce and this edition also seems to be surprisingly hard to find for sale.

Keywords: Law Dictionary Legal terms


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