1682 The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Uncommon

The second edition, first published in 1681, with the sixteen page preface. Early copies of this work are very scarce. 

The register runs from A2-A8, b2, B8-O8, P5. Collated, lacking A1, the monochrome frontispiece. 

Gilbert Burnett's biography on the life of the influential barrister Sir Mathew Hale. Hale was best known for writing 'Historia Placitorum Coronae' (The History of the Pleas of the Crown'). Hale was involved in the witch trials which sentenced Amy Duny and Rose Cullender, with his judgement in this case influencing the Salem Witch Trials. His views that a husband can not be guilty of rape against his wife influenced the continuation of this law up until 1991, when it was repealed by the House of Lords.  

Bound in full contemporary calf, re-backed in modern calf. Endpapers and blanks renewed.