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Sale 2543 - Lot 286
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Plowden, Edmund (1518-1585) Critica Juris Ingeniosa: or Choice Cases in the Common-Law, Never Published by Any Other Author. Octavo, A-V8; ex libris Roger Belwood (d. 1694), a student of Middle Temple, sergeant-at-law in York, and book collector, whose collection was dispersed at auction in 1694, see Bibliotheca Belwoodiana, with Belwood's signature on the title, correction of errata in the text, inked fore-edge title, and neat additional notes on rear fly-leaves; bound in full library buckram, original edges undisturbed, rare at auction, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. London: for C. Adams, J. Starkey, & T. Basset, 1661.
First edition of this translation and reworking of Plowden's Quaeres, with index by the uncredited author H.B. Wing P-2608; ESTC R217633.