A Profitable Booke of Mr John Perkins Sometimes Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England. And Now Translated Out of French into English for the Benefit of Young Students and Others.

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London: Printed by R.B.for M. Wallbanke and to be sold at his shop within Grayes-Inn-gate 1642. 8vo. Orig. panelled boards. Rebacked with vellum. (xxxii 388pp.). Fresh endpapers. First previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and second owner's signature on front endpaper. Minor insect damage with light toning throughout. Good condition. Very rare. NOTE: First published in 1528. This is the first edition in English of John Perkin's popular 1642 English legal treatise as described by the great Elizabethan and Jacobean jurist Sir Edward Coke as "wittingly and learnedly composed."