The young lawyer's recreation : being a choice collection of several pleasant cases, passages, and customs in the law, for the entertainment as well as profit of the reader.
1694
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Title
The young lawyer's recreation : being a choice collection of several pleasant cases, passages, and customs in the law, for the entertainment as well as profit of the reader.
Spine title
Clerk's recreation
Created/published
London : Printed for Samuel Briscoe, over-against Will's Coffee-House in Russel-Street, Covent Garden, 1694.
Description
[16], 206, [2] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Philonomus, author.
Briscoe, Samuel, active 1691-1727, bookseller.
Poole, Thomas H. R., active 1947, former owner.
Phelips family, former owner.
Briscoe, Samuel, active 1691-1727, bookseller.
Poole, Thomas H. R., active 1947, former owner.
Phelips family, former owner.
Note
Published pseudonymously. "To the reader" signed: Philonomus.
Signatures: A-O⁸; A3 missigned 'A5'.
Includes advertisement leaf for Briscoe (leaf O8) and index.
Signatures: A-O⁸; A3 missigned 'A5'.
Includes advertisement leaf for Briscoe (leaf O8) and index.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R6327
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), Y104
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), Y104
Genre/form
Booksellers' advertisements.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
268- 476q
Folger-specific note
Autograph: Thomas H.R. Poole, January 1947. Blind stamp on cover: crest of the Phelips family of Montacute House, Somerset. Bound in sheepskin with filleting, no paste-downs, brown leather spine label: Clerk's recreation. Acquired from Christopher Edwards, 2014-04-30.
Folger accession
268476