A Complete Guide for Justices of Peace, According to the Best...
"Adapted to Our Present Age" Bond, J[ohn]. A Complete Guide for Justices of Peace, According to the Best Approved Authors. In Two Parts. The First Containing the Common and Statute Laws of England, Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. The Second Consisting of the Most Authentick and Useful Precedents, Which do Properly Concern the Same. London: Printed, And are to be Sold by W. Freeman, 1687. [xiv], 252, [4]; 150, [10] pp. Two parts. Each with title page, the second with imprint "Printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge, 1685," and individual pagination. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, lettering piece, raised bands, blind fillets and gilt publication date to spine, endpapers added. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves, struck-through early annotation to recto of preliminary leaf, early owner signature (Roland Wood, dated 1694) to rear endleaf. $400. * Reissue of the first edition. Bond thought his manual was necessary to restate the laws and procedures concerning justices, which he felt had been corrupted during the years of the Civil War and Commonwealth. The contents are digested alphabetically by topic. Published in 1685, it proved to be a useful work. After its 1687 reissue, it went through three more editions, the last in 1707. All editions are scarce. OCLC locates 2 copies of the the first-edition reissue in North American law libraries (Georgetown, Harvard). English Short-Title Catalogue R40759.
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