English Court Hand. A.D. 1066 to 1500:, Part I, text, Part II, Plates

1915. Together 2 books.. Together 2 books. A Useful Study of English Court Hands Johnson, Charles. Jenkinson, Hilary. English Court Hand. A.D. 1066 to 1500: Illustrated Chiefly from the Public Records. Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1915. Part I: Text, xliv, 250 pp. Illustrations; Part II: Plates, xliv. Complete. Part I: 9-3/4" x 6-1/2" (24.7 x 16.5) cm; Part II: 20" x 15" (50.8 x 38.1 cm). Together 2 books. Part I: Original cloth, light shelfwear, internally clean; Part II: Original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with worn and stained dust jacket, its front and rear panels seprated and its spine mostly perished. Moderate wear to spine ends and corners of binding. Owner stamp to front pastedown and title page, interior otherwise clean. $250. * The evolution of court hand, showing the history of abbreviations and individual letters. Plates include Court Rolls, Charters and Bills. "A short study of this book should enable one to read any court-hand manuscript sufficiently accurately for ordinary purposes...": J.H. Beale, Harvard Law Review 29:351 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1211.