Forestry.- Manwood (John) A Treatise and Discourse of
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Forestry.- Manwood (John) A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest, first published edition, mostly black letter, title within typographic border, woodcut initials, lacking blank Z8, title and first 3 text ff. restored at margins, 2A1 fore-margin restored, 2A2-2B2 ?supplied with fore-margins cropped without loss to text, some dampstaining and occasional soiling, some occasional fraying to corners, a few ink notes and scribblings in an early hand, lower hinge broken, recased in contemporary vellum, lacking ties, discoloured, spine repaired, later endpapers, small 4to, [Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; STC 17291], small 4to, Thomas Wright and Bonham Norton, 1598.
⁂ The author was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn and gamekeeper of Waltham Forest who, in 1592, issued privately a work entitled A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest... This was later revised, enlarged and published as the present work, and thereafter in many editions, remaining the standard work on forest law until at least the nineteenth century. It includes sections on hunting and hawking.
Provenance: Henrie Truman (ink inscription).
⁂ The author was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn and gamekeeper of Waltham Forest who, in 1592, issued privately a work entitled A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest... This was later revised, enlarged and published as the present work, and thereafter in many editions, remaining the standard work on forest law until at least the nineteenth century. It includes sections on hunting and hawking.
Provenance: Henrie Truman (ink inscription).
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