Reports of Causes in Chancery, Collected by Sir George Cary One of..

1650. London, 1650. First edition. London, 1650. First edition. A Notable Seventeenth-Century Collection of Equity Reports Carew (Cary), Sir George [1612] [Lambarde, William (1536-1601)]. Reports or Causes in Chancery, Collected by Sir George Cary One of the Masters of the Chancery in in [sic] Anno 1601. Out of the Labours of Master William Lambert. Whereunto is Annexed, The Kings Order and Decree in Chancery, For a Rule to be Observed by the Chancellor in that Court, Exemplified and Enrolled for a Perpetuall Record There. Anno 1616. Together with an Alphabeticall Table of All the Cases. London: Printed by E.G. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, 1650. [xvi], 128, 113-116 [i.e. 119], [1] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, gilding mostly rubbed away from lettering piece. Title printed within typographical border. Moderate toning to interior, heavier toning to margins, light foxing, minor stains and recent marks in pencil to margins in a few places, moderate edgewear and a few chips to preliminaries and final two leaves of text, fore-edge of title page mended some loss to border. $500. * First edition. In 1650, notes Holdsworth, "there was published by George Carew a collection of cases which he had gathered 'out of the labours of master [William] Lambard [or Lambert].' These are known as Cary's Reports, as his name is so spelt on the title page. They are short notes of points decided between 1557 and 1604, and, as Monro says, 'they are very often mere verbal transcripts from the registrar's books.'" A second edition was published in 1665. It was reprinted twice, in 1820 and 1872. History of English Law V:277. English Short-Title Catalogue R22868.