Lot 17
Law.- Sheppard (William) Of Corporations, Fraternities, and Guilds, first edition, for H.Twyford, T.Dring, & J.Place, 1659.
Hammer Price: £300
Description
Law.- Sheppard (William) Of Corporations, Fraternities, and Guilds, first edition, with initial blank, wormhole to lower margin occasionally touching catchword, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked, red morocco label, [Goldsmiths' 1947; Kress 1003; Wing S3195], 8vo, for H.Twyford, T.Dring, & J.Place, 1659.
⁂ The first book in English on the law of incorporation. William Sheppard (d.?1675), a productive legal writer and successful lawyer was invited to London by Cromwell in about 1653. In 1656 he became a serjeant-at-law and was nominated with three others to prepare the charters granted to town corporations. His subsequent study of corporate law is embodied in the present work, covering not only civic and municipal corporations, but also trades, colleges and universities, hospitals and other similar bodies. Sheppard himself was deprived of his offices at the Restoration and fell into obscurity.
Description
Law.- Sheppard (William) Of Corporations, Fraternities, and Guilds, first edition, with initial blank, wormhole to lower margin occasionally touching catchword, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked, red morocco label, [Goldsmiths' 1947; Kress 1003; Wing S3195], 8vo, for H.Twyford, T.Dring, & J.Place, 1659.
⁂ The first book in English on the law of incorporation. William Sheppard (d.?1675), a productive legal writer and successful lawyer was invited to London by Cromwell in about 1653. In 1656 he became a serjeant-at-law and was nominated with three others to prepare the charters granted to town corporations. His subsequent study of corporate law is embodied in the present work, covering not only civic and municipal corporations, but also trades, colleges and universities, hospitals and other similar bodies. Sheppard himself was deprived of his offices at the Restoration and fell into obscurity.
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