Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Maximes of reason: or, The reason of the common law of England. By Edmond Wingate.
Call Number
Oversize Lapidus 5.2396q
Oversize 7890.978q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcp5548281k
Publisher
London, printed by R[obert]. & W[illiam]. L[eybourne]. for W. Lee, A. Crook, D. Pakeman, H. Twiford, G. Bedell, T. Dring, J. Place, and are to be sold at their shops, 1658.
Language
English
Date Created
1658
Extent
[16], 192, 183-270, 281-508, 545-648, 665-772, [12] p. 29 cm. (2⁰)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on title page 'W.Cooke,' 'Charles F: Mayes, 1821.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R10401
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Irregularities in paging; p. 183-192 repeated in numbering, p. 271-280, 509-544, 649-664, omitted in numbering.
Signatures: Title, not signed, A₃-[₄], a⁴, B-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴, Ppp-Zzz², Aaaa-Nnnn⁴, Aaaaa-Zzzzz², Aaaaaa-Gggggg².
Initials; head-pieces.
First leaf is blank.
Printers' names from Wing.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Recent quarter calf; dark cloth boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Legal maxims
Common law

Physical Characteristics

File Count
755

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/17559651-6a9c-4865-8f61-30253d6e8ef4/manifest