Modern Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Queen's Bench.
1719Best.-Nr. 705141719. Salkeld's Modern Cases Great Britain. Modern Reports. Salkeld William 1671-1715. Modern Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster In the Second and Third Years of Queen Anne In the Time When Sir John Holt Sate Chief Justice There. With Two Tables: The First Of the Names of the Cases; And the Other Of the Special Matter Therein Contained. By a Careful Hand. Review'd and Corrected And Many Thousand New and Proper References Added. By W.B. Esq. London: Printed by E. And R. Gosling 1719. viii 314 22 pp. Title page preceded by blank leaf instead of added title page identifying Salkend as author. Folio 12-1/4" x 8". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands lettering pieces black-stamped volume numbers and early ink shelf number to spine gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and moderate scuffing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners which are bumped boards beginning to separate but secure front free endpaper detached and lightly edgeworn. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing to preliminaries and a few other leaves. $150. Second edition. One of the most ambitious and admired works of its time the Modern Reports began as a four-volume set issued from 1682 to 1703. A fifth volume was added in 1711. Salkeld's was the first of six more added by later reporters. Wallace The Reporters 347-390. English Short Title Catalogue T95796. unknown
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