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The History of English Law: Volume 2 - Before the Time of Edward I (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The History of English Law: Volume 2 - Before the Time of Edward I (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Although this book was envisaged as a joint venture and bears the
name of both Pollock and Maitland, it is substantially the work of
Maitland. It was recognised at once as a masterpiece and has since
been accepted as one of the great histories in the English
language. In Maitland's lifetime Acton pronounced him the ablest
historian in England. Plucknett said that 'everything he wrote
exercises a deep fascination and a personal attraction'. To Sir
Maurice Powicke he was 'one of the immortals'. Lord Annan, in the
preface to his Leslie Stephen, called him 'perhaps the greatest of
all professional historians'. To read The History of English Law,
even many years after Maitland's death, is to feel at once the
touch of a master. That touch could only be weakened by editing, so
the present issue is a reprint of the second edition but with an
introductory essay and a select bibliography by S. F. C. Milsom,
Professor of Legal History in the University of London.
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