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12900The inventory is dated 24 September 1839. The genealogical notes date from the 1860s. SEE IMAGE. The inventory 14pp. is at the front of a 4to notebook with ten pages of genelogical and other notes at the back. In good condition on aged-paper in worn original vellum quarter-binding with blue patterned paper boards and ties. Label on front board: 'Mobilier Picard A Faurel'. The inventory is dated 1839 on a title-page but includes entries from the 1840s. It is divided into the following four sections under calligraphic headings: 'Argenterie' 2pp. 'Meubles Meublant' 5pp. 'Linge' 4pp. and 'Vins Fins' 3pp. Around forty wines are listed with quantity vintage for example 'Chambertins 1832' 'Chablis 1831' 'St. Emilion 1841' 'Chambertin papier 1846' and price. The notes at the rear of the volume apparently made at different times include records of family baptisms and of servants engaged. Signed at end 'Picard Faurel'. The inventory is dated 24 September 1839. The genealogical notes date from the 1860s. SEE IMAGE. hardcover
11379Without date or place the poem published in 1849. 2pp. 4to. 35 lines of verse. On a leaf of laid paper with watermark 'J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL'. Paginated 13-14. Very good on lightly-aged paper. The first page begins with the line 'The shrouding soil and give it back to air' and the second page ends with the line 'Won it's sic dark truth and Gaspar fed on such.' The verses in this manuscript are published on pp.19-21 of 'A Day at Tivoli: with other Verses' London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans Paternoster-row 1849. There are two emendations to the manuscript: the second word of the phrase 'or boundary steeps' has been crossed out and replaced with 'rocky' which is the published reading; and the words 'thown out in gest or face' have been crossed out and replaced wtih 'in gesture or in face' the published reading being 'in gesture and sic in face'. A 28-line passage has been marked out with a cross in the margin at beginning and end and the leaf was perhaps sent to a printer for the republication of this extract which begins 'Oh Italy! if fallen as some delight To say thou art yet fallen from what vast height;'. Without date or place [the poem published in 1849]. unknown
2003DADAX0826466699Sheffield Academic Press 2003-06-01. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.94x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
1418547051814/1893. Piccola raccolta di fogli volanti regolamenti progetti carpette di contabilità verbali inerente questa antica istituzione bolognese fondata da Marco Antonio Battilana nel 1583 che provvedeva alla dote per permettere a giovani di povera condizione economica di sposarsi di studiare o di avviarsi alla vita religiosa. Da ricerche svolte dalla Soprintendenza dell'Emilia Romagna negli archivi di questa istituzione è risultato che la maggioranza dei libretti che i montisti contribuivano ad aumentare risultavano intestati a ragazze degli strati popolari urbani; figlie di modesti artigiani di bottegai e di umili lavoranti. Uno spaccato sociale della vita bolognese riguardante la condizione femminile unknown
2013x-0415641330Routledge 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.29x6.38x0.63 inches. Routledge hardcover
1997398601-KA47Chicago IL/San Francisco CA : Chinese Art Foundation 1997. Hardcover. Good. 2 original green half cloth volumes illustrated with numerous full page photographs in colour text in English and Chinese in decorative slipcases 204216 pages 4to. Chicago, IL/San Francisco, CA : Chinese Art Foundation hardcover
2008x-0567026515T&t Clark Ltd 2008. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. T&t Clark Ltd hardcover
181941334Prag Prague: Gedruckt In D. Schollischen Buchdruckerey 1819. Hardback. 1st edition. 4to period boards 4 82 1 25 leaves aproximately 224 pages. In Hebrew with some German on title page. Vinograd: Prague 1165. StCB: 5867 3; Jewish Museum 179. Contents: helek 1. Hilkhot ishut perek 1-10; helek 2. Hilkhot ishut perek 11-25; helek 3. Hilkhot gerushin. Hilkhot yibum va-halitsah. She'elot u-teshuvot. Maftehot. <br> <br> Novellae to Maimonides of the laws pertaining to women i.e. divorce relationships and marriage by Rabbi Jonathan ben Nathan Nata Eybeschutz 1690/95-1764 the talmudist kabbalist and child prodigy. In his youth after the death of his father he studied in Prossnitz under Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt and Rabbi Eliezer ha-Levi Ettinger his uncle and in Vienna under Rabbi Samson Wertheimer. He married the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Spira the av bet din of Bunzlau. After traveling for some time he settled in Prague in 1715 and in time became head of the yeshivah and a famous preacher. <br> After the death of Rabbi David Oppenheim 1736 he was appointed dayan of Prague. Elected rabbi of Metz in 1741 he subsequently became rabbi of the "Three Communities" Altona Hamburg and Wandsbek in 1750. Both in Metz and in Altona he had many disciples and was considered a great preacher. <br> His position in the Three Communities however was undermined when a dispute broke out concerning his suspected leanings toward Shabbateanism. This controversy accompanied Rabbi Eybeschuetz throughout his life and the quarrel had repercussions in every community from Holland to Poland. His main opponent was Rabbi Jacob Emden also a famous talmudist and a potential rival in the candidature to the rabbinate of the Three Communities.<br> The quarrel developed into a great public dispute which divided the rabbis of the day. While most of the German rabbis opposed Rabbi Eybeschuetz his support came from the rabbis of Poland and Moravia. <br> A fruitless attempt at mediation was made by Rabbi Ezekiel Landau rabbi of Prague. Most of Rabbi Eybeschuetz' own community was loyal to him and confidently accepted his refutation of the charges made by his opponent but dissension reached such a pitch that both sides appealed to the authorities in Hamburg and the government of Denmark for a judicial ruling. The king favored Rabbi Eybeschuetz and ordered new elections which resulted in his reappointment. <br> After his reelection as rabbi of the Three Communities some rabbis of Frankfort Amsterdam and Metz challenged him to appear before them to reply to the suspicions raised against him. Rabbi Eybeschuetz refused and when the matter was brought before the Council of the Four Lands in 1753 the council issued a ruling in his favor. In 1760 the debate was rekindled when some Shabbatean elements were discovered among the students of Rabbi Eybeschuetz' yeshiva. At the same time his youngest son Wolf presented himself as a Shabbatean prophet with the result that the yeshiva was closed. See Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000109183; EJ; M. A. Perlmutter R. Yehonatan Eybeschuetz ve-Yahaso la-Shabbeta'ut 1947; Mifal ha-Bibliografyah ha-Ivrit Hoveret le-Dugmah 1964 13-24. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Marriage Jewish law Divorce Jewish law Husband and wife Jewish law Incest -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Maimonides Moses 1135-1204. Mishneh Torah -- Commentaries. OCLC: 19167576. <br> Some wear usual light age and damp staining wide margins stamps. Binding starting About Very Good Condition. RAB-66-17-BLRKKQQ-'emn. Prag [Prague]: Gedruckt In D. Schollischen Buchdruckerey unknown
1929219671929. Women's Rights Original printing of the Sarda Act prohibiting child marriage in India 1929. Act No. XIX of 1929. An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1929. First edition. Scarce. A landmark legal intervention in the regulation of child marriage in British India this pamphlet prints the full text of the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929-commonly known as the Sarda Act-passed by the Indian Legislature and receiving the assent of the Governor General on October 1 1929. The Act criminalized the solemnization of marriages involving boys under 18 and girls under 14 later amended to 18 and 15 respectively and imposed penalties on adult men who contracted child marriages as well as on parents priests or other facilitators. Its provisions extended across all of British India including British Baluchistan and the Santhal Parganas and came into force on April 1 1930.<br /> <br /> The law was introduced at the urging of Indian social reformers particularly Har Bilas Sarda whose campaign aligned with women's rights advocates challenging patriarchal customs under colonial rule. The legislation explicitly defined a "minor" as anyone under 18 and imposed fines and jail terms for men over 21 who married girls below the legal threshold as well as for those who conducted or arranged such ceremonies. A radical attempt to legislate personal status and protect young girls from forced early marriage the Act is recognized as a foundational moment in Indian feminist legal history and a precedent for later reforms. This official government printing priced at "1 anna or 1½d" reflects the colonial administration's effort to disseminate the law widely across the provinces. Minor edge creasing. Overall very good condition. An artifact of pivotal reform in the legal history of South Asia and women's rights foundational for understanding the colonial and postcolonial trajectories of gender and childhood legislation. unknown
2003x-0826466699Sheffield Academic Pr 2003. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Sheffield Academic Pr hardcover
22706Palais Bourbon Paris 20 March 1836. One page 8vo bifolium good condition. From the celebrated manuscript collection of Richard Monckton Milnes Lord Houghton. Text: "The Baroness de Feucheres presents her compliments to Mr Wesmacott and has much pleasure in sending a Snuff Box which Capt. Manby said she might venture to offer him. She begs he will consider it merely as a souvenit underlined and by no means as an inducement for him to make any concession in his political opinions." Pinniger and Westmacott also conducted a court case involving the Baroness's large estate reported in detail in the "Annual Register" etc. Palais Bourbon Paris, 20 March 1836. unknown
1898J1148552Gebbie Pubisher 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Touch of wear to extremities else very good condition./No dust jacket as issued. . Dark red linen over boards with black and gold paper labels on spine. Top page edges gilt. Gold A very nice vintage set in great condition. French literature. Gebbie Pubisher hardcover
196817616AB1968. Sweden ca. 1968 Vase Hight 20 cm - plate 30 cm diameter Painted glass. Göran Wärff born in Gotland Sweden 1933 designer for Kosta Boda since 1964. His works are present in many famous museums all over the world. - "The melt glowing in the surface is what beckons me on to new discoveries. With every gather I feel an almost irresistible urge to give new expressions to the magic of glass to create a work that will be the clearer of litght the sea and the air. Each piece that I design I try to make a receptable for ligth for warmth and sensuality". unknown
1849358Philadelphia: George S. Appleton 1849. First edition. Decorated publisher's cloth. Very Good. This is the third book on chess published in the United States. It is exceedingly rare in commerce. This is the only copy that has been offered at a recorded auction twice. One other copy in poor condition was sold many years ago on . <br /> <br /> Condition: Very Good<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1849 by George Appleton in Philadelphia. First edition first printing. In its beautiful publisher speckled two-color green cloth binding with chess pieces devices and floral and wreath patterns tooled in gilt on the front cover and a mirror image of this design tooled in blind on the back cover. Gilt spine lettering and decoration. All page edges gilt. Pocketbook sized: 4.5" x 3 3/8". Collated and complete: viii 9-64 pp. <br /> <br /> Topics include history of chess rules hints openings specific openings like Queen's Gambit and King's Gambit terms and an annotated match game from the 1820s in Edinburgh.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> The book is in Very Good antique collectible condition.<br /> <br /> Firmly bound rear hinge just starting to crack. Cloth is colorful and fresh. Gilt is glossy. Spine is sun-darkened. Rubbing to spine tips and bumped corners. Grubby extremities. Toned pages with splotches of foxing or smudging. Owner name inscribed in both ink and in pencil on front pastedown same name different inscriber. A few odd marks text corrections. Page 26 with pencil underlining and marginalia which notes "So there may be as many pawns as queens" when noting the rule how pawns can be promoted on the 8th rank.<br /> <br /> All in all a very nice collectible copy of a rare early American book on chess. George S. Appleton unknown
199846165TASCHEN BENEDIKT 1998. 1. hardcover. TASCHEN, BENEDIKT hardcover
18285421London: T. Birt 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor OCLC documents only one example at the National Library of Scotland. The present is the only example on the market.<br /> <br /> The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife" at the age of twenty-one but whose experience becomes a warning to "all young men of high renown": "If you want a tidy wife Beware of a boarding school." What unfolds is a satire of how the marriage economy is affected when women have access to knowledge -- intellectual and physical -- and how by meeting a man's superficial expectations a woman can fulfill her own more pressing needs.<br /> <br /> Thinking that a boarding school girl will have the innocence submissiveness and domestic skill he desires the narrator selects a wife from among their ranks. Thinking only of what he can obtain from such a bargain he is unprepared for what an educated woman brings into his house. The Dandy Wife he describes understands the commodity value of her own beauty and material adornment and that these are her key means for acquiring wealth of her own. "She takes one-half of what I earn In drinking gin and tea; Besides such frills and furbelows My Dandy Wife does wear.Her sleeves upon her dandy gown Oh! Lack they're such a size You'd think they were two balloons that in the air would rise." Aside from staying on par with fashion trends her clothing assists her in avoiding domestic tasks she abhors. She refuses to do laundry more than monthly and through ridiculous cooking failures she rapidly establishes that the kitchen is not a showcase for her skillset. Accustomed to a life of learning she is not trained to conduct domestic business. <br /> <br /> By the ballad's end it becomes clear that the Dandy Wife was savvier in managing a marriage than her husband was. For not only does her superior intellect help her carve out a more satisfying role but she also has physical knowledge that predates him: "The day that I was married I thought I'd got a charming maid But I was much deceived.For scarce five months we'd married been When she had a darling son. T. Birt unknown
18005629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. <br /> <br /> The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes."<br /> <br /> A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom."<br /> <br /> <br /> British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown
18434025Berkeley: T.R. Marvin 1843. First edition. Very Good . Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to front board. Minor loss of cloth to crown of spine. Faint residue of removed library label to spine and front board. Peach endpapers. Light scattered foxing as is typical of the period. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Ward's husband the compiler: "Reverend Mr. Ellingwood with the respects of J.W. Ward." Bookplate on the front pastedown reveals that the recipient Rev. Ellingwood went on to donate the volume to the Theological Seminary of Bangor Maine. A scarce and important example of a published American elegiac volume produced in this case by an eminent family to mourn the loss of an educated woman. Memoirs is unrecorded by OCLC and has never appeared at auction. <br /> <br /> In their marriage James Wilson Ward and Hetta Lord Hayes Ward united two prominent Northeastern families. A senator and Congregationalist minister James descended from the founders of Plymouth and had attended Andover and Amherst. Hetta the daughter of a judge and niece of a Dartmouth president was herself a graduate of Miss Grant's Seminary Academy. The present volume released "exclusively for private circulation among the friends of the deceased" is a testament to Hetta's value not as a daughter who married well or a wife who effectively managed a house but as a companion an intellectual and an individual. In this sense it deconstructs the period's expectations of separate spheres or hierarchy between sexes. With an opening letter by Susan Hayes Hetta's mother as well as a copy of the eulogy conducted by her husband the book reveals vast details about who Hetta was as a person. Both describe her as tender and affectionate; but time and again emphasis is placed on her mind. Though Hetta was skillful with a needle as a child according to her mother "her numberless questions interested and surprised me.She acquired a fondness for poetry.She became as much interested in the in the study of the exact sciences as in the works of imagination making herself acquainted with the higher branches of Mathematics Algebra Geometry etc." James similarly eulogizes his wife. What becomes clear is that he is grieving the loss of a companion and equal. "If we have found a friend of distinguished excellence and for years rejoiced with that friend in mutual interchange and warm affections it is natural when death intervenes and separates us from the dear object of our love to contemplate their virtues.First characteristic which I would notice which she possessed in an eminent degree is an ardent love of truth.She possessed great powers of abstraction.She saw with great clearness the point of an argument and was quick to distinguish between sophistry.She loved to trace the workings of the human mind." Not satisfied simply to have their own testaments to Hetta's extraordinary mind the compilers included to the last half of the book a collection of her own poetry and prose.<br /> <br /> A scarce work in a genre underappreciated in American literature and history. Such coterie publications of intimate mourning were uncommon for the time particularly for a woman.<br /> <br /> National Cyclopedia of American Biography 148. Very Good . T.R. Marvin unknown
199067467Art Media Resources Ltd. New. 1990. Hardcover. 9627101168 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Chinese and English. Description: "This well-illustrated presentation of 200 figure carvings ornaments and utilitarian objects from a distinguished private collection surveys the historical and artistic evolution of Chinese ivory carving from the 12th century B. C. To the early 20th century. Three essays discuss ancient works in ivory and bone summarize major archaeological finds from the Shang to the Yuan dynasty and trace the development of ivory carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties." -- with a bonus offer-- . Art Media Resources, Ltd. hardcover
18015554London: J. Wright; Philanthropic Reform 1801. First editions. Two pamphlets bound together in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Measuring 203 x 120mm and both collating complete: 4 136; 27 1 blank. Toning throughout both tracts with closed tears to pages 69-70 and 77-80 with no loss of text; contemporary pencil annotations throughout the first tract documenting one reader's responses to the controversial claims. Numbers 2 and 4 in ink to headers of each title suggest these were part of a larger compilation of legal tracts likely the set of four that were offered for sale in the 1923 Walpole Galleries sale which bear matching marks. Each scarce OCLC reports approximately 20 copies of the first title and ESTC locates 3 copies of the second title; they are the only examples currently in trade. <br /> <br /> Two scarce pamphlets engaging in a longstanding debate about whether how and when divorce should be socially and legally acceptable. These two take up the issue of women's sexual agency and Thoughts on the Propriety specifically espouses the notion that women who have engaged in adultery should not be allowed to divorce an existing spouse in order to marry a man with whom they've been unfaithful. Biblical justifications for this ban are presented throughout; but the hypocrisy woven into the argument makes it clear that its author is manufacturing a problem in order to punish and shame the few women for whom this circumstance even exists. <br /> <br /> Marriages at the time could only be dissolved through divorce in an Act of Parliament; thus divorces were only available to the titled and the wealthy. Additionally at the time of Thoughts on the Propriety's publication in 1800 no woman had ever successfully petitioned Parliament for divorce and been granted one. This landmark would come in 1801 the year of publication for Nuptiae Sacra when Jane Campbell successfully petitioned to divorce Edward Addison on the grounds of abuse. "Of the 314 divorce Acts issued before 1857 all but five were initiated by men. Of the five women who petitioned for divorce Jane Campbell was the first to successfully unbind herself from her husband" History of Parliament. Whether the author of Thoughts anticipated such a ruling or not it is clear that the issue at stake was not so much women gaining divorces as women more openly at the turn of the century engaging in pre and extra marital sexual relationships or even in some cases paid sex work. This was in fact occurring; and it was the subject of numerous satires erotic works and religious diatribes dealing with cuckoldry and whoredom. The desire to shame and control women who expressed sexual subjecthood and the impulse to position them as the sinning parties rather than the men who equally engaged in the behavior with them is telling and predicts how future divorce laws would unfold. J. Wright; Philanthropic Reform unknown
18782111902160201404Hori Seitaro 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Hori Seitaro paperback
17326120London: Printed for T. Dormer 1732. First edition. Modern quarter morocco over cloth with gilt to spine. Measuring 180 x 111mm and collating complete including frontis folding game board and concluding woodcut: 2 62 2. From the collection of stage magician Ricky Jay with his bookplate to upper pastedown. Top margin trimmed close with consistent loss to running headers and occasional loss to page numbers with no other text effected. Pages somewhat toned with minor marginal chips but otherwise unmarked. A scarce satire playing both on the rising popularity of get-rich-quick schemes and on the economics of the marriage market the present is the only example to appear in the auction record. OCLC locates only twelve institutional copies. The present is the only example currently in trade.<br /> <br /> A Scheme for a New Lottery warns readers against the dangers posed by get-rich-quick schemes targeting large-scale scams like the recently burst South Sea Bubble sometimes called the world's first Ponzi scheme and the pawn-broking swindle of the so-called Charitable Corporation. These scams were appealing to ordinary people at a time when few were "successful in using wealth from trade to found a landed family" Rapp. Mocking both the conmen and the conned A Scheme satirically proposes "Another Lottery which may prove a general benefit to all concern'd; as there is no better Remedy for a Bite from a Mad Dog than the Liver of the Dog that bit." The proposed lottery filled with abstruse rules and convoluted promises ensures that the cycle continues.<br /> <br /> A Scheme also mocks marriage as a scam in which women could either make a wise match in a rich man or lose it all by marrying down. The lottery provides "Fifty Thousand tickets to be deliver'd to Maids or Widows or any that appear to be such" in the hopes of winning a financially stable husband represented by the tickets drawn. Such a match could be a good one: "A Ware-House Keeper with the Salary of a Hundred Pounds" or "the Governour." It could also by virtue of lottery be a loss: "2 Scotchmen both Pedlars 500 Broken Booksellers" and a range of other ruinous bounders are also listed as prizes. For those who desire an advance attempt the folding game bound in the book invites blindfolded women to stick a pin in the board to claim their prize. The present copy was played gently with pin marks revealing a Blacksmith and a Valet de Chambre among those husbands won<br /> <br /> The popularity of A Scheme resulted in a reissue the same year with a canceled title page as The Ladies Lottery and falsely attributed to Swift.<br /> <br /> ESTC N20921. Printed for T. Dormer unknown
1700176470London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe 1700. The first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law First edition in an exceptionally well-preserved binding of this oft-cited work on the legal position of women in 17th- and 18th-century England and a key summary of the social mechanisms underpinning such works as The Taming of the Shrew. "Baron and Feme" refers to the legal fiction that husband and wife shared one legal personhood. The anonymous author of this treatise draws heavily on Sir Edward Coke's edition of Littleton aiming to codify and explain family law "in all the Circumstances of Life from the Solemnization of Marriage to the Divorce" p. vi. "Although written in English at a time when many law books were still published in Latin and law French it was clearly intended for a legally trained reader" Glover p. 75. This copy includes extensive ink annotations in an 18th-century hand suggesting a similar level of legal training. The annotations mainly cite other legal reference works but they also explicate several points of law and invoke others to challenge assertions in the text. The notes on the rear blank verso for instance observe that "the Wife's Portion consisting of Choses in action shall not upon ye husb's death be liable to his debts tho' ye husb: before marriage had made an adequate Jointure on her". Further editions appeared in 1719 and 1738. Octavo 192 x 115 mm pp. xxxii 380 misprinting pp. 178-9 182-3 186-7 and 190-1 as 162-3 166-7 170-1 and 174-5 36. Contemporary calf spine ruled in black and lettered in black manuscript covers with double fillet in black. Housed in custom green morocco book-form case. With 18th-century ink annotations and infrequent underlining to contents and rear blank verso. One corner just worn at tip infrequent brown marks to several pages contents otherwise bright and fresh: a fine copy. ESTC R6177; Wing B899. Susan Glover Engendering Legitimacy: Law Property and Early Eighteenth-century Fiction 2006. unknown
