The Assize Of Bread Together With Sundry Good And Needfull Ordinances For Bakers Brewers

by Bread

$18,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

1626. Numerous woodcuts in the text. 28 unnumbered leaves incl. the first leaf, a blank . Small 4to, early 20th-cent. calf final leaf with short tear in blank section, carefully repaired . London: W. Stansby for J. Grismand, 1626. A very rare book that describes the English bread-pricing regulations established in 1266, which remained in force, with modifications, for more than six centuries. As Britain’s early modern economy developed and the price

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