COKE, Sir Edward.
A Little Treatise of Bail and Main-prize.
A Little Treatise of Bail and Main-prize.
Written at the request of Sir William Hayden, Knight, by Sir Edward Cooke.
Stock Code 124543
London, Printed: and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, [1715].
All early editions of this work are rare. ESTC records just 6 examples of this undated edition of 1715, 4 in the British Isles and Ireland (2 copies at the BL, Eton College Library, and the Bolton Library, University of Limerick) and 2 in North America (Huntington Library and University of Minnesota).
With provenance for the politician Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Monreith (1845-1937). Maxwell was elected Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire in 1880 in the Conservative interest, and served as Junior Lord of the Treasury during the Salisbury administration. A keen antiquarian, Maxwell was President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Chairman of the National Library of Scotland, and Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, amassing an impressive library at his seat of Monreith House.
8vo (22 x 14 cm); woodcut device to title, woodcut head and tailpieces, bookplate to front pastedown, loose paper library note, last 2ff of text with top corner paper repair, title slightly toned,, some spotting to endpapers; 20th-century alf vellum, marbled paper boards, gilt arms to upper cover, brown morocco letteringpiece to spine, very good; 39, [1]pp.
ESTC T41102.
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