Author: Edward Foss
Title: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time 1066-1870
Description: London, John Murray, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A very smart biographical sketch of historical English judges by Edward Foss. First edition. Biographical sketches of the Judges of England from 1066 to 1870 organised into dictionary format for referencing purposes. Written and collected by Edward Foss, an English lawyer and biographer. He became a solicitor, and on his retirement from practice in 1840, devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities. His Judges of England was regarded as a standard work, characterized by accuracy and extensive research. The original brown cloth binding has been rebacked to contemporary boards. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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