[Rarebooks] fa: A COLLECTION OF SUNDRY STATUTES 1640 - Fardinando Pulton - Massive Folio

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Fardinando Pulton: A Collection of sundry Statutes, frequent in use: With Notes in the margent and References to the Book cases and Books of Entries and Registers, where they be treated of. Together with an Abridgement of the residue which be expired, repealed, altered, and worn out of use or doe concern private Persons, Places, or Things, and not the whole Common-wealth. Also a necessary Table, or Kalender, is annexed hereunto, expressing in Titles the most materiall Branches of those Statutes in use, and practice... And now in this last Impression the faults in the Table exactly corrected and amended. London: Printed by M. Flesher and R. Young, Assignes of I. More Esquire, 1640. Tall, thick folio (34.5 x 23.5 x 10 cm) in modern half morocco; [6], 1464, [4], [74] pp.; title-page with elaborate woodcut architectural border; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials. STC 9331; ESTC S122318.

Massive compendium of early English statutes, covering everything from Alehouses to Yarne and Thrummers, including Archery; Artificers; Bastardy; Bookes; Buggery; Conspiracy; Conjuration, Inchantment, and Witchcraft; Drunkenesse; Extortion; Fish dayes; Ideots, or naturall fooles; Riots, Routs, and unlawfull assemblies; Villaines and Villainage; Wreck of the Sea; etc. etc. Ex-library, but minimally so: call letters in gilt at the foot of the spine, ink stamp and notation on the verso of the title, small discreet inkstamp to the margin of a few leaves, no other markings. Bound without the initial and terminal blank leaves, lacking 4 leaves of the Kalendar (2B2-B5); old paper repairs to the title-page and final two leaves, some modest cockling to the bottom corners of the text block, else the contents unusually clean and crisp, with no foxing, little or no browning, and only the occasional small spot.