Land-Lords Law, A Treatise Very Fit for the Perusal of All Gentlemen..
First Edition of the First English Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant Meriton, George [1634-1711]. Land-Lords Law: A Treatise Very Fit for the Perusal of Gentlemen and Others. Being a Collection of Several Cases in the Law Concerning Leases, Distresses, Replevins, Rescous, Waste, And Several Other Matters Which Often Happen Between Land-Lord and Tenant, As Appears in the Contents of the Several Chapters. London: Printed for Henry Twyford, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1665. [xviii], 171, [1] pp. Lacking first leaf, a blank. 12mo. (5-3/4" x 3-1/4"). Contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining portions of existing spine with blind fillets, blind rules to boards, corners mended, endpapers renewed, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge. Light rubbing and shallow scuffing to boards, title page mounted. Moderate toning to interior, repairs to corners and edges of several leaves, wormtrack from title page to leaf A10 (pp. 21-22), brief annotations in an early hand to a few leaves. $500. * First edition, one of two issues from 1665. Meriton was a lawyer and a prodigious writer on a wide range of legal and non-legal topics. Born in the North Riding of Yorkshire, he is also remembered for his dialect poem The Praise of Yorkshire Ale (1683). First published in 1665, the Land-Lords Law was the first English treatise on the law of landlord and tenant. It was a well-regarded work that went through four later editions, the last in 1697. All are scarce. Including both issues, OCLC locates 7 copies of the first edition in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library of Congress, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, York). English Short-Title Catalogue R19512.
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