[Rarebooks] FS: Pigott's law treatise "of Common Recoveries..." 1st ed. 1739

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(LAW) Pigott, Nathaniel. A TREATISE OF COMMON RECOVERIES, THEIR NATURE AND 
USE. To Which Is Added the Case of Page and Hayward More Fully Reported Than 
in Any Other Book Extant: and Also a Case Between the Late Earl of Derby 
and the Coheirs of His Elder Brother. With Precedents for Amending 
Recoveries... In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling... for J. 
Shuckburgh. 1739. First edition. 4to. (4),232,(16)pp. (including 2pp. of publisher's 
ads at front). Cont. polished calf, some blind tooling on covers, red calf 
spine label. Sir Thomas Clarke's (1703-1764) copy with his signature on the 
front free endpaper and laid in loose is a folded sheet of his autograph 
notes. Bookplate of the South Library on front pastedown and its small blind 
stamp on first three pages.     $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Two later editions appeared in 1753 and 1770.

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