[Rarebooks] John Bull as the English Conscience

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

ARBUTHNOT, John.  Law is a Bottomless-Pit [3d ed.] [with] John
Bull in His Senses [3d ed.] [with] John Bull Still in His Senses
[with] Lewis Baboon Turned Honest [with] An Appendix to John Bull
[with] A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law is a
Bottomless-Pit [etc.].  Printed for John Morphew [imprints vary],
London, 1712.  Contemporary blind panelled calf, the joints
cracking but holding, browning, the top margin cut close
(legibility not affected); a good copy. [76965 ACT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=76965
							$ 850.00

All but one of Arbuthnot's "celebrated production", credited with
imprinting John Bull on the English conscience, his "ingenious
and witty attack" on English politics and law cast in the form of
a fictitious lawsuit with Bull (England) as plaintiff.

Joe Luttrell
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