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[MAIDMENT, James]. The court of session garland.

Edinburgh. Thomas G. Stevenson, 1839. First edition.
2, x, 154pp. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements.

[Bound with:] The court of session garland. Part Second. Edinburgh. Printed for Private Circulation, 1839. First edition. [4], 16pp.

[And:] Supplement to the court of session garland. Edinburgh. Thomas G. Stevenson, 1839. First edition. vii, [1], 36pp.

[And:] Appendix to the court of session garland. Edinburgh. Printed for Private Circulation, 1839. First edition/ 22pp.

8vo. Contemporary cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked, sunned. Lower hinge exposed, scattered foxing.
The four complete parts (apparently limited to 150, 50, 150, and 30 copies respectively) of an anthology, edited by antiquary James Maidment (bap. 1793, d. 1879), of anecdotes and poetical pieces satirising judges and advocates of the Court of Session from its creation in 1532 up to the reign of Victoria.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 25539