John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae
London: In the Savoy, Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1737. Notes by John Selden.
This beautiful copy features an engraved frontispiece showing Fortescue with Prince Edward in France.
The frontispiece reads: "Chancellor Fortescue following King Henry's Fortune, and attending his Son Edward into France,
wrote this Book to recommend the Laws of England to the Esteem and Protection of that Young Prince."
The book is structured as a series of lessons, and begins with a dialog between Fortescue and
Prince Edward in which Fortescue convinces Edward of the importance of the English law.
Gift of Daniel R. Coquillette.