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Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of
Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of
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Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, first edition, woodcut title, partially printed in triple column and black letter, folding table, lacking initial blank, 3R4 with tear running into text, damp-staining, heavier at start causing weakness to paper, title partly laid down, outer margins of first 10ff. with strengthening to outer margins, the line crossed through in heavy ink, ink inscriptions to endpapers and title, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, new endpapers, [STC 15784; PMM 126], folio, Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1628.

⁂ "...a disorderly, pedantic, masterful work...the basis of the constitution of the realm" by the prosecutor of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.

Provenance: Charles Strickland (ink inscriptions).
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Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of

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