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Lot 105

SAINT GERMAN, CHRISTOPHER. c.1460-1540.
The Dialogue in English, Between a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England.... London: Richard Tottill, 1593.

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SAINT GERMAN, CHRISTOPHER. c.1460-1540.

The Dialogue in English, Between a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England.... London: Richard Tottill, 1593. Small 8vo (134 x 85 mm). A-Y8 Z4. Contemporary calf, spine lacking, front free endpaper detached, with first two quires loose, light vertical lines in pencil to margins through C1.
Provenance: Arthur Myles (17th-century ownership name to endpaper); Eames Wilforde (later ink ownership name to title page); with two more inscriptions, illegible.

Later printing of "the most remarkable book relating to English law published in the Tudor period, and quite unlike any book to have come from the pen of an English lawyer before" (DNB). The first 24 chapters were initially published in Latin in 1528, and the English translation appeared in 1530 with an additional 13 dialogues between the theologian and the barrister. It remained the standard handbook for legal students until the appearance of Blackstone's Commentaries in the 18th century. Beale T-479; STC 21575.

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