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Item #60586 A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor 2 vol. Michael Nolan.

A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor 2 vol

A Principal Source for Studies of the British Poor Law of the Early Nineteenth Century Nolan, Michael [d. 1827]. A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor. With Considerable Additions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Butterworth, 1808. Two volumes. Octavo (8" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering pieces and blind fillets to spines. Morocco labels gilt-stamped "Hinckford Hundred/ Northern Division" to front board of each volume. Contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of Volume I, light toning to text, internally clean. $750. * Second edition. One of the principal sources for the early 19th century British poor law, this was the standard reference on the subject for some thirty years. Speaking of this branch of literature, Holdsworth held it in high regard. First published in 1805 and went through three more editions the last in 1825. All are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of the second edition in North American law libraries (Harvard, Georgetown, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, University of Georgia, Villanova, Yale, York). Holdsworth, A History of English Law XIII:448. Sweet & Maxwell, ALegal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:258.

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