A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries
Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.
Edition
The 5th ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,
"To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index)
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].
Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
written in Latin by the Baron Pufendorf, counsellor of State to his late Swedish majesty, and to the late King of Prussia. Done into English by Basil Kennett, D.D. late president of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. To which are added all the large notes of Mr. Barbeyrac, translated from the best edition ; together with large tables to the whole.
Page numbers 40-43 omitted in second group of paging; numbers 317-320 omitted and 477-480 duplicated in third group. Text and register continuous despite pagination.
Text chiefly in two columns.
"An historical and critical account of the science of morality" has separate title page ("Osborne" here spelled "Osborn"), pagination and register.
Publisher’s preface (see unnumbered page 4 at beginning) names two other translators as the Reverend Mr. Percivale (translated Book V) and the Reverend Mr. Itchiner (translated Book VIII).
An ornament used (unnumbered page 22 at end) is signed: "Imprim Sam Aris".
