Item 10492The Life of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England in the Reign of James I
London: Henry Colburn, 1837. Frontispiece, xvi, 368pp: viii, 491p. Full contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines laid down. First edition of Johnson's esteemed biography of Sir Edward Coke, with engraved frontispiece portrait. During the reign of Charles I, Coke retired to devote himself to the production of his Institutes, the.....
