Choice Presidents Upon All Acts of Parliament, Relating to the Office.
A Popular English JP Manual Printed by Mary Tonson with a Notable Welsh Association Kilburne, Richard [1605-1678]. G.F. of Gray's Inn, Editor. Choice Presidents Upon All Acts of Parliament, Relating to the Office and Duty of a Justice of Peace; Including those Made and Passed in the 10th and 11th Years of King William the Third. With Notes and Instructions Thereupon Taken Out of the Said Acts, And Particular Cases in Law Adjudg'd Therein. Also a More Useful Method of Making Up Court-Rolls Than Hath Been Hitherto Published in Print. By Richard Kilburn, Esq; Late One of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Kent, And Principal of Staple-Inn. The Sixth Edition, Very Much Enlarged with New Presidents to the Year 1700. And Law-Cases, &c. By G.F. Of Grays-Inn, Esq. London: Printed for Mary Tonson Within Grays-Inn Gate, Next Grays-Inn-Lane, 1700. [lxi], 502 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Negligible minor worming to spine, retained armorial bookplate of John Wood to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, minor worming to upper margins of several leaves near center of text block with no loss to text. $300. * Sixth edition. The first edition of this popular and respected JP manual was published in 1680, its eighth and final edition in 1715. Richard Kilburne, a member of Staple Inn, was an eminent solicitor in chancery and a justice of the peace in Kent. Mary Tonson, the publisher of this edition, was the widow of publisher and bookseller Richard Tonson [1653-c.1700]. According to the ESTC, she is listed as a publisher for 3 imprints, including this one, from 1693-1700. Little is known about her life or her partnership with her husband. She certainly took over the business upon his death and even took on apprentices, including Egbert Sanger, one of Edmund Curll's early associates (Baines & Rogers). A "man of considerable local importance," Wood [1755-1817] was a Cardiff landowner, lawyer, local official, captain of the Cardiff Cavalry, businessman and founder of the Cardiff Bank, an important early bank in that city. Baines & Rogers, Edmund Curll: Bookseller 29. Hodges, "Early Banking in Cardiff," The Economic History Review 18 (1948) 84. English.
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