CATALOGUE OF THE LEGAL MANUSCRIPTS OF ANTHONY TAUSSIG

Baker, Sir John

The Taussig manuscripts form the most important collectionof English manuscripts still in private hands. The contentsrange from the only known privately-held manuscript ofBracton to important collections of eighteenth andnineteenth century correspondence (notably that of SirMichael Foster, Sir William Blackstone, Lord Thurlow andWilliam Tidd, the celebrated special pleader). There arefifty illustrations, providing legible specimens of manydifferent kinds of legal manuscripts and legal hands.