The fourth part of the Institutes of the laws of England : concerning the jurisdiction of courts ...
Edward Coke's 1644 legal treatise on English court jurisdiction, printed in London by M. Flesher for W. Lee and D. Pakeman, and later owned by John Adams and held in the Boston Public Library's John Adams Library. The pictures are a historiated initial with a seated scribe, a dense strapwork ornament, a framed portrait of a bearded man in a ruff, and a small engraved view of two houses, giving a designer old-book ornament, portrait framing and early typographic decoration.
