If you were only allowed two books to sum up the common law system which would they be?

Question

If you were only allowed two books to sum up the common law system which would they be?

Answer 1

1) Cross, Rupert, Precedent in English law, 4th ed., Clarendon Press ; 1991. viii, 246 p

2) S.F.C. Milsom, Historical Foundations of the Common Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Butterworths, 1981)

Answer 2

Bible and dictionary.

Answer 3

Hmm I with the Milsom HFCL, though I'd go for a period source too... Fet Asaver maybe, or Bracton or Littleton, which show how the early common law was percieved at the time.