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| − | ''Coke's Reports'' contains cases from 1572 to 1616. | + | ''Coke's Reports'' contains cases from 1572 to 1616. "Cokes' Reports [which contain cases from 1572 to 1616] retain a position among... legal publications that few of the elder reports possess. Although some of the decisions that they contain have become obsolete, although others have been greatly modified by the revolutions which jurisprudence has undergone... yet, many of them are leading cases that are now studied by those who ascend to the fountains of legal principles." <ref> Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography'' 209-211. Sweet & Maxwell, ''A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth'' 1:296 </ref> |
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'''Author:''' Coke, Edward, Sir. | '''Author:''' Coke, Edward, Sir. | ||
Revision as of 13:15, 29 May 2013
by Sir Edward Coke
Coke's Reports contains cases from 1572 to 1616. "Cokes' Reports [which contain cases from 1572 to 1616] retain a position among... legal publications that few of the elder reports possess. Although some of the decisions that they contain have become obsolete, although others have been greatly modified by the revolutions which jurisprudence has undergone... yet, many of them are leading cases that are now studied by those who ascend to the fountains of legal principles." [1]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Coke, Edward, Sir.
Title: The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat (with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law.)
Published: London, In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for R. Gosling ..., 1738.
Edition:
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Description of Wolf Law Library's copy
The George Wythe Collection includes a complete set of Coke's Reports purchased in 2010 and volume VI of George Wythe's personal copy. The latter is on permanent loan to the Wolf Law Library from the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.
George Wythe's Copy, Volume 6
Includes the bookplate of George Wythe. Previous owners include George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, Dabney Carr, and Tazewell Taylor.
Complete Set
Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed, a few title pages re-hinged.- ↑ Marvin, Legal Bibliography 209-211. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:296
