The 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 great multi-volume commentary on English Common law for which he is most famous. From the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet, a private association of Scottish solicitors founded in 1594, with gilt-stamped coat of arms on all four covers. Item #10492
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