The Compleat Court-Keeper: Or, Land-Steward's Assistant

Jacob, Giles

Verlag: John Nutt for Bernard Lintott and Thomas Ward, London, 1713

Beschreibung

[2], iii-vii, [1], 488pp, [24]. Original full calf covers, later rebacked, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel. Rubbed to extremities, internally staining to edges of pastedowns and endpapers from leather, text lightly browned throughout, but generally fairly clean. The first edition of Jacob's first work, it covered the administration of estates, and was reprinted several times in the eighteenth century, and on into the nineteenth. Jacob was named by Pope as one of the dunces in Pope's 'Dunciad', the "blunderbuss of the law". The final three pages are a list of law books available from both Lintott and Ward. ESTC T137000 (the variant with page viii unnumbered); Maxwell and Maxwell, page 400 Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004077

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Compleat Court-Keeper: Or, ...

Verlag: John Nutt for Bernard Lintott and Thomas Ward, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1713

Einband: Hardback

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.