The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum, Or, Clerkship Improved: Containing...
Rare Dublin Edition of a Popular JP Manual [Justice of the Peace Manual]. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum, Or, Clerkship Improved. Containing a Variety of the Most Improved Precedents in Conveyances, &c. &c. Particularly Useful to Attornies and their Clerks; And All Persons Belonging to the Law. Likewise Very Necessay for Agents, Country Gentlemen, Landlords, &c. &c. As it Contains a Variety of the Most Useful Precedents [...] The Whole Selected from the Very Best Authorities. To Which is Added, A True Copy of the Will and Testament of Her Grace Sarah late Dutchess of Marlborough. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, 1795. [ii], 216, [8] pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 3-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets to calf edges, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards and board edges, somewhat heavier to rear board. Toning to interior, light browning and foxing in a few places, gutter of leaf B12 (pp. 23-24) reinforced without loss to text, early ownership signatures (of William Elles) to head of title page and following leaf. A nice copy of a rare edition. $550. * Sixth stated and final edition. "In those days, when anyone who was anybody was a judge, and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace, a vademecum...was an essential tool..." (Cohen). Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading, this popular work covers topics such as bonds, bills of sale, grants, indentures and wills. Also printed in London, Belfast and New York from 1742, the final 1795 printing is the sole Dublin edition. OCLC locates 2 copies worldwide (Harvard Law School, University of Washington Law School). Cohen, "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library," 61 Law Library Journal (1968) 440, 445. English Short-Title Catalogue N64695.
Price: $550.00
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