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STA in 4 vols., fol., 1719. To these vols. S. Emlyn and afterwards F. Har- grave, made additions, but the latter editor's ed., in 11 vols., fol., Lon- don, 1776, is more esteemed than any of tlie preceding. An edition began to be published in 8vo., in 1809, edited by T. B. Howell, which is known as BowelPs State Trials. Mr. Cobbett appears, by the title page, as editor of the first ten volumes, but his name is said to have been the onl}'^ thing he contributed. T. J. Howell, a son of the former Howell, compiled the volumes from 22 to 33, inclusive of this edition, and the 3-lth volume is a very carefully prepared Index to the whole by Mr. Jardine. This edition, besides containing many more Trials during the same period embraced by that of Mr. Harjrravc, and brino-ing the Trials down to 1820, is enriched by numerous references and explanatory notes, embodying a great variety of legal and historical information, which greatly contributes to a cor- rect understanding of this immense repository of Criminal Law. The first compiler of the State Trials, also furnished an Abridgment of the same, in 8 vols., 8vo., 1720, continued by an additional volume; and, also, a Critical Beview of the State Trials, fol., 1737. 31 Ed. Rev. 235 ; HofF. Leg. Stu. 425; Bridg. Bib. 312; Wallace's Reporters, 3. STATHAM, N. Abridgment des Livres Annales et Reportes Cases en le liey de Angleterre. fol. London. R. Pynson. n. d. This very ancient and beautiful specimen of typography, is supposed, by Bibliographists, to have been executed by William Le Tailleur, at Rouen, for R. Pynson, about the year 1470. It was printed before title pages were deemed necessary accompanyments of books, and in a type lesemblino- MS. letters. Stalham collected his materials from the Year- Books, extending from Edw. I. to the end of Hen. VI. ; and he also abridges some decisions not elsewhere to be found. The Cases are dis- tributed chronologically, in the alphabetical order of the titles of the law, without much regard to the connexion of the matter, and, though a rude performance, it has the merit of originality, and has served as a model for similar productions. As a practical work, it had the fate to be of less use than perhaps any performance that, in the nature of it, seemed to aim at general utility. The later and better Abridgment of Fitz-herbert, entirely superseded the use of Statham. " His book," says Fuller, " is much esteemed for the antiquity thereof; for, otherwise, lawyers behold him as soldiers do bows and arrows since the invention of guns, rather for sight than service." 4 Reeves, 117; 23 N. A. Rev.; Nic. Hist. Lib. 168; Fuller's Worthies, Pref. ; 10 Coke's Rep. 28; Mere. & Ste. Corp. 686, 691 ; 28 L. O. 283. STATUTES at Large, from Magna Charta to the Union, 41 Geo. in. By T. E. Tomlins, and J. Railhby. 20 vols. 8vo. Lon- don. 1811. 661