* DVD available separately. Reprint of the rare first collected edition which was limited to 750 sets, edited, with preface, index and life of the author, by Dr. David Wilkins. Collects all of the major legal treatises and antiquarian studies of one of the greatest figures in English legal history. Among the titles included are De Anno Civili Veteris Ecclesiae Judaicae Dissertatio, De Diis Syris, Dissertatio ad Fletam, Mare Clausum, Epistolae & Poemata, Titles of Honour, Uxor Ebraica, The History of Tythes, Of the Judicature in Parliament, Speeches and Arguments and Table Talk. This set is notable also for its handsome layout and typography, which features Roman, Italic and Hebrew type created for Bowyer by William Caslon. In Printing Types Updike refers to it as Bowyer's "greatest achievement" and as "a stupendous piece of work" (II:102, 136-137).
* DVD available separately. Reprint of the rare first collected edition which was limited to 750 sets, edited, with preface, index and life of the author, by Dr. David Wilkins. Collects all of the major legal treatises and antiquarian studies of one of the greatest figures in English legal history. Among the titles included are De Anno Civili Veteris Ecclesiae Judaicae Dissertatio, De Diis Syris, Dissertatio ad Fletam, Mare Clausum, Epistolae & Poemata, Titles of Honour, Uxor Ebraica, The History of Tythes, Of the Judicature in Parliament, Speeches and Arguments and Table Talk. This set is notable also for its handsome layout and typography, which features Roman, Italic and Hebrew type created for Bowyer by William Caslon. In Printing Types Updike refers to it as Bowyer's "greatest achievement" and as "a stupendous piece of work" (II:102, 136-137).Published July 1st 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. (first published 2006)

John Selden was an English jurist, scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."
He joined in the protestation of the Commons for the maintenance of the Protestant religion according to the doctrines of the Church of England, the authority of the crown, and the liberty of the subject.
Selden arrived at an Erastian position in church politics. He also believed in free will, which was inconsistent with Calvinism.
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