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FIFTH EDITION 1716. 3 title pages at front and each part has a separate title page; (1) Pleas of the Crown, (2) A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts, (3) A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes held at Bury St Edmunds for the Country of SUFFOLK, on the Tenth Day of March, 1664, (pages 73-104), (4) A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor, (5) Pleas of the Crown, The Second Part by Giles Jacob. 8vo approximately 190 x 115 mm, 7½ x 4½ inches, pages: [22], 1-272, [8]; [4] 5-143, [1]; [2], 1-121. Bound in full contemporary calf, gilt lettered label to spine. Age-browning to margins of first General title page, heavy age-browning to pastedowns and endpapers, occasional pale age-browning to text, a very good tight copy. "The publication, A Tryal of Witches, related to the 1662 Bury St. Edmunds witch trial, first published in 1682 and was used by the magistrates at Salem when looking for a precedent in allowing spectral evidence. Since the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence, supported by the eminent philosopher, physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, the colonial magistrates also accepted its validity and their trials proceeded." Wikipedia under the headings "Salem witch trials, Spectral Evidence". See: Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, pages 197-99: "The sheets of the whole volume were reissued in 1716 and were added to Hale's Pleas of the Crown"; Diana and Jeremy Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Volume 1, page 352, No. 966 listing the first edition of 1683; Leslie F. Maxwell, A Bibliography of English Law 1651-1800, Volume 2, page 54, No. 4. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, 1716 (illustrator). London, 1716. Jacob's Continuation of Hale's Pleas of the Crown Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. [Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676)]. Pleas of the Crown: The Second Part. Or, A Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject. By way of supplement to Sir Matthew Hale. Being a Continuation Thereof to This Time, From the acts of Parliament and Books of Reports, &c. In Sir Matthew's Method. London: Printed by J[ohn] N[utt], Assignee of E. Sayer, for D. Brown [et al.], 1716. [iv], 121 [i.e. 131], [1] pp. Pp. 129-131 misnumbered 119-121. General title page of Hale's Pleas of the Crown, with the same publisher and imprint date, bound after title page. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"; 18.7 x 11.5 cm). Recent period-style paneled calf by Philip Dusel, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, endpapers renewed with period paper. Moderate toning to interior, light soiling to title page, faint finger smudges to a few leaves. A notably handsome copy. $1,250. * Only edition by Jacob. First published in 1678, Hale's important study of criminal law, the predecessor to his landmark History of the Pleas of the Crown (1736), went through seven editions, the last in 1773. The 1716 edition by John Nutt is in two parts. The first is Hale's treatise, the second is Jacob's continuation. Nutt also issued the two parts as separate titles. The general title page for the two-part version is mistakenly added to our copy. English Short-Title Catalogue T147428.