Author: Hope, Sir Thomas & Clyde, The Right Honourable James Avon [editor]
Title: Hope's Major Practicks 1608 - 1633 [ 2 volumes complete ]
Description: printed for the The Stair Society, Edinburgh by Neill & Co Ltd , 1937 - 1938, 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 2 volumes, liv+359pp, xii+335pp, b/w frontis in volume I, index to the whole in volume II, spines a little faded, edges bumped. Publications of the Stair Society volumes 3 & 4. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A first printing of the 'Major Practicks' of Sir Thomas Hope [ 1573 - 1646 ], Scottish lawyer, and Lord Advocate under Charles I. They are a comprehensive digest of statutes and decisions interspersed with 'practical observations'.

Keywords: law, legal history, scottish history