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This copy is from the library of the celebrated legal collector Anthony Taussig, with a pencilled note to that effect on the front free endpaper, and is cited in STC’s listings for the edition. Taussig’s legal manuscripts and early printed law books are now housed in Yale Law Library. The volume also has the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield (1832–1918), a partner in the multi-generational Freshfield legal firm, which has had a prominent position in the City of London for two centuries. Folio (269 × 184 mm). Early 20th-century purple cloth, unlettered paper spine label. Spine a little sunned and endpapers toned, binding firm. Contents with light fraying at extremities and faint running stain at head of gutter, neither near text; still a very good copy. ¶ Beale S114; ESTC S822; STC (2nd ed.), 9360.5. £2,000 [154686] 51 HERZOG, Chaim. The War of Atonement. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975 First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For William Safire, in appreciation. Chaim Herzog”, along with a typed letter signed from Herzog presenting the book. Safire (1929–2009) was a long-time political columnist for the New York Times , and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006. He was staunchly pro-Israel and received the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University in 2005. Herzog later served as president of Israel between 1983 and 1993. The present work is his account of the Yom Kippur War, published only two years after the event, and remains one of the most authoritative accounts of the conflict. It was also published in Jerusalem the same year. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt on a red ground. With dust jacket. A little shaken, a very good copy in like jacket, slight toning and rubbing. £300 [148288]
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50 HENRY VIII. Anno primo Henrici Octavi. The kynge our soueraigne lorde Henrie the eight after the conquest . . . hath do to be ordeined, made, and enacted certaine statutes and ordinaunces in maner & fourme folowyng.
[London: Thomas Powell, c.1563] the start of henry viii’s reign
The acts of parliament for 1509, the first year of Henry VIII’s reign, reprinted here around five years into the reign of his daughter Elizabeth. The acts for the first year of Henry’s reign are compelling, even if none of the specific acts (including regulating wool, fishing, bridge tolls, and financing the king’s household) marked a major change. Over Henry’s 36-year reign his parliaments would pass acts which would dissolve the monasteries, establish him as head of the Church of England, authorize his marriages and divorces, and cement the Tudor state. The relationship between king and parliament was drastically altered between the date of the acts, 1509, and the printing of this edition in around 1563. As parliamentary acts remained in force until repealed, new editions of earlier statutes were printed with some regularity, being essential tools for Tudor lawyers, merchants, and officials. The acts from 1509 were first printed by Richard Pynson in 1510. All editions from the Tudor period are rare on the market.
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