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    By John Carpenter; Richard Whitington; Henry Thomas Riley
    London   Richard Griffin and Co.
    8.5" by 7" x, [2], 1-660pp.
    The first translation by Henry Riley of this important book of English Common Law.
    By John Carpenter; Richard Whitington; Henry Thomas Riley

    1861 Liber Albus: the White Book of the City of London

    London   Richard Griffin and Co.
    8.5" by 7" x, [2], 1-660pp.
    The first translation by Henry Riley of this important book of English Common Law.
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    An Important Work, First Edition, Pleasing Copy, Rebound

    The first edition translated by Henry Thomas Riley of this monumental and important volume. 

    Containing the first book of English Common Law; a thorough study of the legal, political, and social history of the city of London from the twelfth to the early fifteenth century. 

    This book was originally compiled in 1419 by John Carpenter and Richard Whitington. 

    translated by Henry Riley from the original Latin and Anglo-Roman.

    Condition

    Rebound in full cloth with new endpapers and a leather title label to the spine. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor chipping to the gutter of the half title page, and some minor offsetting and creasing to the same leaf as well as to the title page. Otherwise, the pages are generally bright and clean throughout with only the occasional, minor handling mark.

    Very Good

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