The Lawyers Library, A New Book of Instruments: Consisting of...

1709. London: R. V. And Sold by R. Gosling, 1709.. London: R. V. And Sold by R. Gosling, 1709. "A New Book of Instruments" [Forms]. [Great Britain]. The Lawyers Library. A New Book of Instruments: Consisting of Precedents Fitted for the Use of Attorneys, Ecclesiastical-Persons, Scriveners, Merchants, Sollicitors, Owners of Ships, Mariners; And Generally for All Persons Concerned in Trade and Commerce. Being the Most Compleat Collection of Its Bulk and Nature Hitherto Extant. Revised and Enlarged. London: Printed for R. V. And Sold by R. Gosling, 1709. [viii], 256; 215, [15] pp. Two parts, each with separate pagination. Title page preceded by publisher advertisement. Octavo (6" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands to spines, recent repairs to corners, top-edges of boards and head of spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, spine ends bumped, some rubbing to joints, a few cracks to text block. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to preliminaries and final few leaves of text. $850. * Second and final edition. Arranged alphabetically by subject and represented as "Being the most Compleat Collection" of its kind, this work was first published in 1680. Both editions of this title are rare. OCLC locates 3 copies of the second edition, all in law libraries (University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, Yale). The ESTC adds 1 more (Harvard). English Short-Title Catalogue N10404.