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First Edition. First Edition of a Standard Guide on Practice Before the Assize Courts Stubbs, W[illiam]. Talmash, G[eorge]. The Crown Circuit Companion. Containing the Practice of the Assizes on the Crown Side; With the Courts of the General and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace; Wherein (Among Other Things Incident to the P…ractice of the Crown Law) is Included, A Collection of Useful Modern Precedbnts [sic] of Indictments in Criminal Cases; As Well at Common Law, As Those Created by Statute. Under All Which Precedents, So Much of the Common and Statute Laws are Set Forth, As at One View to Shew the Circumstances that Create the Several Offences; The Offenders Punishment, And How; And in What Cases Felons are Within, Or Ousted of the Benefit of Clergy. With References to the Printed Authorities, Relating Thereto. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling (Assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) For J. Mechell, At the King's-Arms, Next the Leg-Tavern; and J. Bailey, at the Bible in Mitre-Court, Fleet-Street, 1738. [iv], 9-116, xvi, 376, [12] pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"; 19.7 x 12.1 cm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, corners, board edges, corners and hinges mended. Minor worming and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards. Light toning to interior, faint spotting in a few places, offsetting and a few minor chips to margins of endleaves and title page, brief early annotation (owner initials "WC" and price paid) to head of title page. $500. * First edition. This is a handbook for those practicing criminal law before the assizes, courts held twice (later three or four) times a year in main county towns that were presided over by visiting judges from the higher courts. It explains assize jurisdiction, practice and procedures and provides useful precedents on such topics as bankruptcy, indictments, murder, extortion, forgery, libel, perjury, marriage, riots and smuggling. It was a standard work for decades; its final edition, the tenth, was published in 1836. English Short-Title Catalogue T122847.