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May,
2004 Dear Member, Once
again it is time for us to request payment of your annual dues. The rate remains $50.00 for individual members
($65.00 for institutions). These
rates have been in effect since 1991, and a modest increase has been proposed
for 2005. The proposed increase will
be submitted to the Annual General Meeting. Your
prompt payment will be very much appreciated. This is particularly important this year because the volume
for 2004 will probably posted to paid-up members in mid-summer. If you are paying with a check that
does not contain your name, could you please write your name on it or include
your name on a separate piece of paper within the envelope? (Institutions should include a copy of the
invoice form.) This will save us much
time here. We
announced last year that the volume 120 (for 2003) would be an edition of
previously unprinted reports from the years 1509–1550 by Professor J. H.
Baker. In fact, Professor’s Baker’s
edition came in too long for one volume (approximately 1000 pages, all
told). Volume 120 (which was mailed
to all members paid-up for 2003) was the first part of Professor’s unprinted
reports from the years 1509–1550; volume 121 (for 2004) will be the second
part. This will complete Professor
Baker’s current undertakings with respect to the early Tudor law reports,
publications that, it is fair to say, have totally revised our understanding
of what happened during these crucial years. The
volumes for 2005 and 2006 will be continuations of the earliest year book
reports (prior to 1300), by Dr. Paul Brand.
They will probably be followed in 2007 by Mr. Le Poidevin’s edition of
Bryt’s Reports (a named Year Book reporter of the early fifteenth
century). Further along in the
pipeline are a proposed edition of William Staunford’s Plees del Coron (1557)
and an edition of the papers of Sir Matthew Hale’s law reform commission of
the 1550’s. The
Supplementary Series will soon be recontinued with works that are nearing
completion. The Letters of Sir
William Blackstone, edited by Professor W. R. Prest is about to go to
print. Other volumes in the pipeline
include Dr. David Crook’s The King’s Bench and Common Bench in the Reign
of Henry III and Dr. A. Lyall’s edition of Cases in the Irish Court of
Exchequer, 1716–34. The
main series of Selden volumes is entirely in print. Volumes 1–99 have been reprinted by W. S. Hein & Co., Inc.,
1285 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209–1987 (phone: [800]828–7571; FAX:
[716]883–8100; email: mail@wshein.com; website: http://www.wshein.com/). The cost is $95 per volume, with a twenty
percent discount for Selden members, plus dispatch costs. Volume 100 and forward can, as before, be
obtained from the Secretary, Victor Tunkel, Selden Society, Faculty of Laws,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, U.K. (phone:
44 20 7882 5136; FAX: 44 20 8981 8733; email: selden-society@qmw.ac.uk). This
year Hein has, with the Society’s permission, issued a volume reproducing the
whole of the Society’s lecture series from 1952–2001. The volume has over 700 pages and is case
bound in maroon cloth similar to that of the Supplementary Series. Many of the past lectures have been out of
print for some years, and the Council hope that members and especially
libraries will want to complete their holdings. The volume is offered to members at a special price of $120 inclusive
of all dispatch costs. A leaflet with
order form will be sent to members in a forthcoming dispatch. Hein
has also reprinted the four volumes of Professor Thorne’s edition of Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England. The price is $395, with a discount to
Selden members of twenty percent, plus dispatch costs. Simultaneously, the Ames Foundation, the
Harvard Law School Library, and the Legal Information Institute of the
Cornell Law School have produced a fully-searchable “on-line” version of both
the Latin and the English text of Bracton. It is available on the “world-wide web”
at: http://hlsl.law.harvard.edu/bracton/
(please note the change in this URL) The
Ames Foundation, which, as many Selden members know, is an organization
similar to Selden, though its publications are more irregular, has recently
entered into a distribution agreement with Hein & Co. Hein has the stock of Ames back volumes
and has reprinted those volumes that are out of print. Hein has also agreed to give discounts on
Ames volumes to Selden members similar to those that Ames has offered in the
past. We
call your attention to the “web page” for the Selden Society. This contains a complete list of Selden
publications and other information that we hope will be useful. It is available on the “world-wide web”
at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/selden_society/ Links may found on this page to Selden’s
London web page. A similar “web page”
for the Ames Foundation is available at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ames_foundation/ Members
will receive the announcement of the Society’s Annual General Meeting at
Lincoln’s Inn in London on Monday, 19 July, at 6:45 p.m. Yours
sincerely, Charles
Donahue, Jr. David
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