A Profitable Booke of Maister Iohn Perkins, Felowe of the Inner Temple Treating of the Lawes of Englande

by John Perkins, d. 1545

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Full modern speckled calf with blind ruling, three raised bands forming four compartments on spine, red morocco gilt-lettered titling-piece in second compartment, spine gilt ruled, on laid paper Early edition of Perkins's popular 16th-century English legal treatise, Sir Edward Coke thought it wittily and learnedly composed. First published in 1528, Perkins's Profitable Booke was a popular work during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, held in high

• Binding: Leather

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