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The Tradesman's Lawyer and Countrey-Man's Friend. First edition of this legal compendium, in a well-preserved contemporary binding. The Tradesman's Lawyer is a prescient effort to arm the burgeoning middle classes with effective legal knowledge, given that "Persons of a higher Rank... have both Learning and Leisure to read the Law" (p. [iii]).This copy has evidence of contemporary usage: ink annotations on pages 10, 34, and the rear free endpaper cross reference these principles with recent legislation, including the principles of equity published in 1698.

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