[Rarebooks] fs-English Law of Women

Joe Luttrell rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Sun Apr 17 23:25:02 EDT 2005


May we offer,

[ENGLISH LAW OF WOMEN].  The Lawes Resolutions of Womens
Rights: Or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall
Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinions,
Arguments and points of Learning in the Law, as doe properly
concerne Women [etc.]. S.T.C. 7437.  Printed by the assignes of
Iohn More Esq. [etc.], London, 1632.  Modern calf, crimson morocco
label, gilt, some browning, but a good crisp wide-margined copy,
with a number of marginal annotations throughout. [71754 W1*L80]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71754
                                                        $ 8,500.00

The only edition of the first work on women at English law, its
publication recently termed a "remarkable event" and the work
itself described as "[t]he greatest legal monument" in English of
the debate on the social and natural status of women.

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