The Justice of Peace His Companion, Or a Summary of All the Acts...
First Edition of a Foundational JP Manual Owned by an Irish Peer Blackerby, Samuel [d.1714]. The Justice of Peace His Companion: Or, A Summary of All the Acts of Parliament to June 12th, 1711. Whereby One, Two, Or More Justices of the Peace, Are Authorized to Act, Not Only in, But Out of the Sessions of the Peace. With an Exact Alphabetical Table. [London]: Printed by J. Nutt, Assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq; For J. Walthoe, In the Middle-Temple Cloysters; And at His Shop in Stafford, 1711. [xvi], 228 pp. Includes one-page publisher list. 12mo. (5-1/4" x 3"; 13.3 x 7.6 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands, gilt ornaments and fillets to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, a few minor nicks to boards, some rubbing to extremities, front joint just starting at head, corners bumped and lightly worn, armorial bookplate of Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort to front pastedown. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. Moderate toning to interior, offsetting to margins of pastedowns and endleaves. A very good copy with an interesting association. $750. * First edition. Designed for practical use both in and out of the "Sessions of the Peace," the work proved so indispensable that it went through eight subsequent editions, the last one in 1749. (Nathaniel Blackerby, the author's son, edited the final four editions after his father's death.) Arranged alphabetically, it treats the statutes that give authority to justices. Each is briefly summarized in one column; the penalty for its breach is stated in a parallel column. According to Holdsworth, "the book had many of the qualities of an index, and it was so used, Burn said, by writers of larger books on this topic." (Burn was the author of the magisterial Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, first published in 1755 and long a standard work.) Thomas Taylour [1757-1829], styled Viscount Headford from 1766 to 1795 and known as The Earl of Bective from 1795 to 1800, was an Irish peer and politician from County Meath who served three terms in the Irish House of Commons. His copy of Blackerby must have been useful when he was sheriff and one of the governors of County Meath. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII:334. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of.
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