Ranulph de Glanville, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus regni Angliae. London, [1554?]. The earliest collections of forms were compilations of precedents of writs, the brief writings through ...
In 1847, Oliver Byrne, “surveyor of Her Majesty’s settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works,” wrote and designed an illustrated book so far ahead of its time that, ...