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MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest: wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in Force, but also the Originall and Beginning of Forrestes, London: [Adam Islip? for] Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598.
4° (186 x 133mm). Title within a border composed of type ornaments, a few woodcut initials, mostly black letter. (Small rust-hole in F6, title a little stained, light waterstaining in lower inner margins in the last 5 quires.) Early 19th-century English calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, double gilt fillet round sides (very lightly rubbed). Provenance: several early 16th-century marginalia in 2 hands; initial 'D' under a marquess's coronet (in top panel of spine).
Second, first published, edition of Manwood's exhaustive work on English forest law from ancient to modern times. Chapters 4 & 5 deal with beasts of venery and their hunting and chapter 16 is concerned with 'keeping of dogges within a forrest. Who may keep Dogges within a forrest. What Dogges may be kept within a forrest...' The author, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, was also gamekeeper of Waltham Forest and justice of the New Forest. Schwerdt II, p.7; STC 17291.
4° (186 x 133mm). Title within a border composed of type ornaments, a few woodcut initials, mostly black letter. (Small rust-hole in F6, title a little stained, light waterstaining in lower inner margins in the last 5 quires.) Early 19th-century English calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, double gilt fillet round sides (very lightly rubbed). Provenance: several early 16th-century marginalia in 2 hands; initial 'D' under a marquess's coronet (in top panel of spine).
Second, first published, edition of Manwood's exhaustive work on English forest law from ancient to modern times. Chapters 4 & 5 deal with beasts of venery and their hunting and chapter 16 is concerned with 'keeping of dogges within a forrest. Who may keep Dogges within a forrest. What Dogges may be kept within a forrest...' The author, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, was also gamekeeper of Waltham Forest and justice of the New Forest. Schwerdt II, p.7; STC 17291.
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