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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.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good +. First edition. 8 x 12 1/2 inches. 132 pages. With ads for law books facing title page. Quarter calf with marbled boards. On the top of title page is written 'By Daniel Call', with the 'By' crossed-out with 2 lines. This signature matches perfectly Call's ownership signature on title page of a copy of Wythe's 'Decisions of Cases in Virginia.' which is in the Wolf Law Library. Daniel Call (1765-1840) studied law with George Wythe and was the author of a 6 volume 'Reports of cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia' 1801. On front pastedown is ownership signature of Wm. F. Watson - he apparently wrote on ffep 'A treatise of Equity by Lord Gilbert', in a long passage in writing seeming to be Call's, he argues that this book is certainly not by Gilbert but Ballow, he cites a copy in his possession of the Dublin 1769 3rd ed. which has Lord Gilbert as author even though text is very similar to this 1737. Condition is Good+; Boards have water stains, corners worn, hinges repaired with brown paper tape, rear is holding, front cover detached retaining ffep, other than the noted writing, the text pages are unmarked with the exception of 2 marginal notes, some pages are lightly toned, some with marginal stains. RRGR.…

Second edition in English and the first edition, first issue of this translation; 8vo, pp. [22], 122; uncut; engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Knight; contemporary if not original marbled paper wrappers which are quite torn and creased, with losses; the text block, with curls at the edges, is sound, and clean. Boileau was an influential critic of French poetry and The Lutrin, ostensibly the first mock-heroic poem, which concerns the quarrel between two ecclesiastical dignitaries about where to place a lectern in a chapel, is sometimes said to have given Alexander Pope a model for The Rape of the Lock. With an account of Boileau's writings, and a notice of this translation by Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) and the translation itself by John Ozell. Foxon O-282.…