Coke, Edward The Institutes of the Laws of England The First Part ... a Commentary upon Littleton; The Second Part ... Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient, and Other Statutes; The Third Part ... Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes; The Fourth Part ... Concerning the Jurisdiciton of Courts. London: [various printers], 1684-42-44-69. 4 works in 3 volumes (Third Part and Fourth Part bound in one), ninth, first, first and fourth editions, folio, First Part in 18th-century calf gilt, gilt supralibros incorporating baron's coronet to each cover, frontispiece discarded, retaining engraved portrait of Littleton and folding woodcut table of consanguinity, binding worn, text not collated, Second Part in contemporary sheep, decorative woodcut border to title-page, retaining colophon leaf, chip to head of front joint, T2-3 transposed, no frontispiece called for by ESTC, Third-Fourth Part in contemporary blind-ruled calf (recornered), Third Part with decorative woodcut border to title-page and [16 pp.] index not mentioned in ESTC, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White (the portrait noted as signed 'I Payne fecit' by ESTC, the example in this copy apparently moved from the Fourth Part where no portrait called for but here offset onto A4 v.) [ESTC R473, R12887, R12841, R35651; Wing C4928, C4948, C4960, C4931]; Idem. Les reports [Le second part ... Le tierce part ... Le quart part]. London: per assignationem Johannis More, 1636 [parts 2-4: 1635]. 4 parts in 1 volume, folio (28.2 x 17.5cm), contemporary speckled calf ruled in blind, text in English, Latin and Law French, in roman and black letter, decorative woodcut border to title-page of first part, woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials, part 3 retaining final blank, joints split but cords remaining intact, occasional browning [ESTC S4184 (10 copies world-wide), S4185 (13 copies), S4186 (14 copies), S4188 (18 copies); STC 5494.8, 5498.5, 5501.5, 5503.7] (4)

Note: The first section of the Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England (pp. 1-78) is a commentary on Magna Carta. Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).