Atkins william ed (2 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled and rubbed. Boards dust toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Notes: Volume 2 only. Other titles: The Art and Practice of Printing/ Dealing with the composing department, mechanical composition, letterpress printing in all its branches, lithographic printing, direct and offset, photo litho, photogravure printing, process block making, electrotyping and stereotyping, bookbinding and ruling, paper and the paper warehouse, printing office management and estimating, printers' accountancy, etc. Volume II. Physical Description: 267 pages: illustrations; 19 cm. Includes index. 1 Kg. …

London: Atkins, and Edw. Atkins, 1685. 7th ed. The "Longest Lived" Treatise on Courts Leet and Baron Sheppard, William [d.1675?]. Browne, William, Editor. The Court-Keepers Guide for the Keeping of Courts-Leet and Courts- Baron: Wherein Is Largely and Plainly Opened. The Jurisdiction of These Courts, with the Learning of Manors, Copyholds, Rents, Harriots, and Other Services and Advantages Belonging unto Manors; Shewing the Lord's Due and the Tenant's Duty. Usefull for All Persons Concerned in Copyhold Estates. Whereunto are Added Precedents of Copies of Court- Rolls, With Other Additions. London: Printed by the Assigns of Rich. Atkins, and Edw. Atkins, 1685. [viii], 278, [4], 279-284 pp. Table of contents, which should precede p.1, misbound between pp, 278 and 279. Precedents of Copies preceded by divisional title page. Complete. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary sheep with early rebacking, blind rules with corner fleurons to boards, raised bands to spine. A few minor scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves, early owner signature (William Williams/ October 8, 1781) to front endleaf. A handsome copy. $400. * Seventh edition. Holdsworth observes: "[t]here was still a considerable amount of works to be done by [the courts leet and baron]. The common field system of agriculture needed regulation; the rights and duties of copy-holders were matters for the manorial court to determine, subject to the control of the courts of common law; and statutes of this period had assigned new duties to the leet. Thus a want was felt for something more than the single stereotyped tract which various publishers went on issuing from the press during the first half of this century. (.) [T]he longest lived.was the Court Keeper's Guide of William Sheppard, first published in 1641 and re- issued as late as 1791.": Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:120-121. English Short-Title Catalogue R24529. London: Atkins, and Edw. Atkins, 1685. 7th ed (illustrator).…