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MANWOOD, John. A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forrest. London: by [Adam Islip? for] Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598. Small 4° (191 x 137mm). Title within ornamental woodcut border, a few woodcut initials, with the blank Z8. (Outer margin of title, final leaf of text and following endpaper strengthened, title soiled, small rusthole in 2B causing loss of a couple of letters, some marginal browning throught). Contemporary calf with blind-stamped sides (rebacked, corners and edges with some repairs, recased, new endpapers, lacking ties), in a calf-backed box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: 2 old inscriptions on title (one scored); occasional old underlining and annotations in ink; The Right Honourable Dodgson Hamilton Madden (bookplate).
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.
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.