Parish Law: or, a Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks and all Others concern’d in Parish Business
SHAW, Joseph
Fourth Edition.
REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
Published: In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for F. Cogan at the Middle Temple Gate Fleet-Street and J. Nourse at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1739
Stock code: 10802
Price: £188.00
8vo., Fourth Edition, on laid paper, title and text partly in black letter; eighteenth century full calf, sides with double frame border, supplemented at joint edge by decorative fillet, back with five raised bands, gilt dentelles (faded at fore edges), expertly rebacked in calf to style with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably crisp, clean copy in period binding.
With 3pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end. Shaw's compendium remained the standard reference on parochial jurisprudence for almost two centuries. SCARCE.