Ancient Law by Maine, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, 3rd Printing. Published by Oxford University Press, 1931. 12mo. Book is very good with a blue top stain, and very light spotting to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with a few small nicks along the edges and a sticker outline on the front cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp VI, 415. Fully bound in crimson Morocco. 17th printing. AEG. Law Society prize plate to FPD and crest in gilt to upper board.

Condition: Good-. o Modern Ideas. 23cm by 14cm, 415pp, first edition, full leather, front cover has discolouration, spine is faded and tear along one edge, corners bumped, hinges cracked but text block still square and firm, no loose pages, some pencil notes on front flyleaf, light spotting throughout, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Intro. by Theodore W. Dwight, LL.D. 400 pps. First American from second London Edition. Brown stamped boards, gilt title on spine. Top of spine frayed to binding cloth, bottom crumpled. Corners bumped, internally, prev. booksellers label inside front cover. Geo. W. Smith and Co. Law Booksellers and Importers, 95 Nassau Street, New York. Prev. owners name on first free end paper. Internally, extremely light browning around page edges. From about p. 397 to end, top edge moisture stained down about 3/4", gets worse next few pages to end. Otherwise clean and sound. Intro states in part, "The work of Professor Maine on "Ancient Law" is almost the only one in the English language in which general jurisprudence is regarded from the historical point of view." Also "Regarded as nex only to Blackstone. and influential upon Oliver Wendell Holmes in writing his "Common Law" VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. LONDON. 1861 FIRST EDITION. Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law. Provenance: Original owner, Charles Fernald, Victorian-era judge (Name and year - 1862 inscribed inside front board, item stamped 'SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. 1943'; raised circular blind stamp on two pages), once part of an extensive library collection that once graced the Fernald Mansion; now a historical landmark Museum in Santa Barbara, California. Description: 514 pages, Faux Light Brown Leather, pebble grain texture, blind stamped geometric pattern of (5) double rectangles on spine edge, gilt stamped/embossed title/publisher at spine, double rectangular frame blind stamped front/rear boards with double edged frame, natural torn leaf edge, by Edmond & Remnants, London. Dimensions: 9" x 5 3/4" x 1 1/4". Condition: Very Good; moderately bumped/rubbed spine with a tiny break/tear at each end, very gently hinges rubbed at crown/heel, moderately bumped/rubbed front board corners, gently bumped/rubbed rear board corners, hinges secure, interior pages light brown with some very light spotting, very light puckering in a couple of areas, strong spine, age toned leaf edge, (2) previous ownership inscriptions. NOTES: Cambridge book review 1931: "Maine's Ancient Law, on its first publication in 1861, was immediately recognized as an epoch-making work on historical jurisprudence". In a later edition (1931), "Although later researches and discussion have shown some of the author's conclusions cannot be accepted as accurate, it is remarkable to what a small extent the work has affected by subsequent investigation. The useful Introduction supplied by Professor Allen points out very adequately to the student those parts of the work which should be received with caution. The work will always maintain its position as a classic in Jurisprudence and the inclusion of it in the 'World's Classics' series in so dainty a form".

First Edition of Maine's Ancient Law Maine, Henry Sumner [1822-1888]. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. London: John Murray, 1861. viii, 415, [1] pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary three-quarter sheep over patterned cloth, gilt-edged raised bands and gilt title to spine, colored endpapers. Moderate rubbing to boards, very slight bubbling and light wear to edges of cloth in places, rubbing and light wear to extremities, joints starting at ends, chipping to head of spine, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked, faint offsetting to endpapers, a few tears to front pastedown, pencil annotations to rear free endpaper. Moderate toning, a few partial cracks to text block, all leaves secure, early pencil annotations and marginal marks to a few leaves, light soiling to title page. $450. * First edition. "Maine indicates the place in the development of a legal system of such agencies as legal fictions and equity. He explains the history of the concept of a law of nature; and in his account of the contrast between primitive and modern society--between the place which the law of persons occupies in primitive and modern law--he comes to the famous conclusion that the government of progressive societies has been from status to contract" (Holdsworth). Holdsworth, A History of English Law XV:363-4.

First American Edition of Ancient Law Maine, Henry Sumner [1822-1888]. Dwight, Theodore W. [1822-1892], Introduction. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, And its Relation to Modern Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. lxix, 400 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Three-quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, raised bands and gilt title, gilt owner name, "R. Ross Perry", to foot of spine, edges rouged, patterned endpapers. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, hinges cracked. Moderate toning to interior, Perry signature and inscription, "Nov. 8th 1886/ Washington D.C.," to front endleaf, small stain and Perry signature, mostly trimmed away, to title page. $650. * First American edition, from the second London edition (1863). "Maine indicates the place in the development of a legal system of such agencies as legal fictions and equity. He explains the history of the concept of a law of nature; and in his account of the contrast between primitive and modern society--between the place which the law of persons occupies in primitive and modern law--he comes to the famous conclusion that the government of progressive societies has been from status to contract" (Holdsworth). R. Ross Perry [1846-1914] was a Washington, DC, lawyer, Georgetown Law School professor and the author of a notable treatise, Common-Law Pleading: Its History and Principles (Boston, 1897). Holdsworth, A History of English Law XV:363-364.