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London, 1658, 1659, 1663, 1675. 4 parts, in 1 book (illustrator). First Edition. London, 1658, 1659, 1663, 1675. 4 parts, in 1 book. A Copy with an Interesting Pennsylvania Association Leonard, William. Hughes, William, Editor. Reports and Cases of Law: Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of Law, At Westminster, In the Time of the Late Queen Elizabeth, From the 18th to the 33th. Year of Her Raign. Collected by a Learned Professor of the Law, William Leonard, Esq; Then of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn. Published by William Hughes of Grays-Inne. Published by Will. Hughes of Grays-Inne, Esq; With Alphabeticall Tables of the Names of the Cases, And of the Matters Contained in the Book. London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, For Nath. Ekins, 1658, 1659, 1663, 1675. Four parts, each with title page and individual pagination. [xii], 336, [8]; [viii], 226, [6]; [xii], 279, [56]; [xii], 252, [12] pp. Imprints vary slightly. Complete. Folio (11" x 7"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed, "1 2 3 4" in early hand to fore-edge of text block. Light browning to text, somewhat heavier in places, occasional faint dampspotting, some edgewear, five early owner signatures (one, dated 1783, excised, creating two small holes, the others of John Joseph Henry, dated 1790; Stephen Chambers; James Uniacke, struck through; and William Montgomery), and small library stamp (Lancaster Law Library Association) to title page, brief ink annotations (citations or one-word glosses) to a few pages. $1,000. * First edition. This work was issued in four parts. Covering the period spanning 1549 to 1615, these reports, were, according to Sir Edward Sugden, "'always in high estimation' and this opinion is confirmed by Lord Nottingham" (Wallace). A second edition was published in 1687. This copy had several early owners. The first was likely James Uniacke [1736-1803], an Irish MP representing Youghal in County Cork. Stephen Chambers [1753-1789], a later owner, was born in Ireland and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he became a prominent attorney. Among his clerks was John Joseph Henry [1758-1811]. Both men were soldiers in the Revolutionary War and grew close, with Henry marrying Chambers's daughter Jane in 1785 and naming his first son, born in 1786, after Chambers. Their relationship was interrupted when Chambers died in 1789 after succumbing to wounds incurred in a duel. Henry likely inherited this book af.