Phayer, Thomas

A Booke of Presidents, With Additions of Divers Necessarie Instruments

      [Phayer (Phayre), Thomas (c.1510- - 1560)]. A Booke of Presidents, With Additions of Divers Necessary Instruments. Meet for All Such as Desire to Learne the Manner and Forme How to Make Evidences, And Instruments, &c. As in the Table of This Booke More Plainly Appeareth. London: Printed for the Assignes of I. More, 1641. [viii], 105, [6] ff. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style. Some rubbing to extremities, a few shallow scuffs to boards. "F. Pollock/ 1896" to verso of front endleaf. Light soiling to title page, interior otherwise fresh. * Later edition. With an index, court calendars and an almanac (t determine future court dates). First published in 1543, this was the first collection of conveyancing forms. The most significant book on land law since Littleton's Tenures, it was also one of the earliest formbooks printed in England. A popular work, it went through several editions and reissues, the final appearing in 1626. Sir Frederick Pollock [1845-1937], one of the greatest British judges and legal scholars of his day. His treatises on contracts, jurisprudence the common law and other subjects did much to clarify and systematize English law. Several of these were standard texts that went through several editions. He is also remembered for his collaboration with F.W. Maitland on The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I and his correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes, which was published posthumously as The Holmes-Pollock Letters. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:479 (8). [Attributes: Hard Cover]