Forestry. Manwood (John), A Treatise of the Laws of the Fore...

Hammer

£150

Forestry. Manwood (John), A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest [...], Collected, as well out of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Land; As also out of sundry learned ancient Authors, and out of the Assizes of Pickering and Lancaster [...], third edition, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1665, mostly printed in Gothic Black Letter, misnumbered in places but collating pp: [xxx], 552, title-page repaired at gutter, leaves G4-[5] & [U7] defective, some stains, some leaves chipped or a trifle tatty at the edges, elsewhere toning, and blemishes in places, the text legible regardless, 20th century in-keeping calf, the upper-cover preserving contemporary calf monogrammed: EL, raised bands, repaired endpapers, 8vo.

Provenance: 1) ?C/G. Bright, contemporaneous ink MS. ownership inscriptions; 2) Charles Maynard his book/Tuley the 8: 1770, dated ink MS. inscription to ffep, others, similar, elsewhere.