Les Reports de Henry Rolle

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Les Reports de Henry Rolle, Serjeant del' Ley, de Divers Cases en le Court del' Banke le Roy en le Temps del' Reign de Roy Jacques

by Henry Rolle

Les Reports de Henry Rolle
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Title page from Les Reports de Henry Rolle, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Henry Rolle
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Published London: Printed for A. Roper, F. Titon, J. Starkey, T. Basset
Date 1675-1676
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Language Law French interspersed with English
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Pages [4], 279, [1], 285-339, [1], 353-477, [53] p.
Desc. (31 cm.)
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Les Reports covers the years 1614-1625. Rolle belonged to the intellectual circle of Selden. His work "shows not only stupendous industry, but a fine head for analysis and distinction, was partly the work of this season of his life." [1]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary calf with blind fillets to boards and rebacked in period style with raised bands, lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine and renewed endpapers. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. Wallace, The Reporters 249. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:308.