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A Law Grammar Or Rudiments of the Law. First Edition London 1744

1744réf. 834131744. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4". Rare. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4". Rare. A Superb Copy with Distinguished Country-House Provenance: From the Library at Ombersley Court Barons Sandys Jacob Giles 1686-1744. A Law Grammar; Or Rudiments of the Law: Compiled From The Grounds Principles Maxims Terms Words of Art Rules and Moot Points of Our Law In a New Easy And Very Concise Method. For the Particular Instruction of All Young Gentlemen Either at Schools Colleges Or the Universities Or if Privately Educated Attornies Clerks And Other Persons; Whereby They Will Acquire a Great Deal More Useful Law-Learning Than by Any of the Books Yet Publish'd. London: Printed by Henry Lintot Assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq; for Aaron Ward At the King's Arms in Little Britain 1744. 12mo. ii iv 138 6 pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page. 6-1/2" x 4"; 10 cm x 16.5 cm. Contemporary sheep boards ruled in blind spine with raised bands and blind fillets. Moderate rubbing and wear to extremities small nicks and scuffs to boards corners bumped joints and hinges starting. Penciled shelf mark to front free endpaper. Light toning somewhat heavier in places. A very good copy the text notably fresh. $1250. First edition. A compact but ambitious introduction to English law designed for a wide readership extending from university students to attorneys' clerks and the "privately educated." Characteristic of Jacob's practical and commercial sensibility the work distills foundational doctrines terminology and maxims into an accessible format; it proved enduringly popular reaching eleven subsequent editions by 1792. It belongs with his other successful efforts to democratize legal knowledge including The Common Law Common-Placed 1726 and Every Man His Own Lawyer 1736. From the library of the Barons Sandys second and third creations housed at Ombersley Court Worcestershire-one of the notable country-house libraries of England. The original owner was likely Samuel Sandys 1st Baron Sandys 1695-1770 Whig politician Chancellor of the Exchequer and Justice in Eyre. Though not formally trained in the law Sandys occupied offices in which a practical command of legal principles was advantageous making a manual of this kind entirely apposite. Rare in commerce; the second copy we have handled. English Short-Title Catalogue. unknown