Edward Coke, Oracle of the Law
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and design, top edge red tinted, bw frontispiece, viii, 385 pages, illustrated in bw plates, portraits, facsimile. Good+ (foxing to block, and several of beginning and end pages. Pages are clear to read.). Item #178866
Signed by author, Hastings Lyon, to previous owner on ffep. Title page reads, "Edward Coke, Oracle of the Law. Containing the Story of his Long Rivalry with Francis Bacon: Some Account of their Times and Contemporaries: Famous Trails in which Coke Participated: His Stand against King James I to Maintain the Supremacy of the Common Law: His Share in Wresting the Petition of Right from King Charles I: To which is added A Statement about the Law Writings of Coke on which Generations of Lawyers were Trained." Includes a list of the illustrations.
OCLC: 560680
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