A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm....
Eighteenth-Century English Law Bookseller's Catalogue Walthoe, John [1657?-1744], Bookseller. A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm; And Some Others Relating Thereunto, To Michaelmas Term, 1725. Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles. With an Account of the Best Editions, And Common Prices for which They are Now Sold. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1726. [iv], 92 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/4"). Recent period-style speckled calf (by Philip Dusel), blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges, endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior, negligible light foxing to a few leaves, trimming to top and bottom edges just affecting some running heads and catchwords without loss to legibility. A handsome copy. $1,250. * Walthoe was a leading law bookseller in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century London. Arranged alphabetically by topic and based largely on the pioneering seventeenth-century catalogues of fellow bookseller Thomas Bassett, this catalogue lists books printed for Walthoe and titles he carries in stock or can acquire for clients. It is prefaced by a table of contents. Including the present title, Walthoe published six catalogues between 1714 and 1731. All are scarce. OCLC and the ESTC locate 6 copies of the 1726 edition in law libraries (Columbia, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Library of Congress). English Short-Title Catalogue T144269.
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