Greenwood Revis'd, And Made More Useful to Under-Sheriffs..

1703. Final Edition of a Classic Handbook for Lay Justices Greenwood, William. Wilkinson, John, Editor. Greenwood Revis'd, And Made More Useful to Under-Sheriffs, County-Clerks, Solicitors and Court Keepers; By Leaving Out What is Useless, Correcting Several Particulars, Adding Law Cases, And Presidents of Declarations, Pleadings, Process and Proceedings, With a Table of the Fees of the Country Court: As Also the Office of a Coroner. By John Wilkinson, Gent. To Which is Added, Some Resolutions of the Court of Queen's Bench, For Keeping Inferior Courts Within Their Just Bounds. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esqs.; for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holbourn, 1703. [vii], 513, [25] pp. 1 pp. publisher advertisement preceding title page, another advertisement to verso of final leaf. Octavo (7" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind tooling along joints, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards, chip to upper inside corner of front board and head of spine, chipping to foot of spine, some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn, shelf number in early hand to front pastedown, small worm track to rear pastedown and rear endleaves, then a single wormhole through head of text block. Light toning to text, foxing to final quarter of text. An appealing copy. $650. * Seventh and final edition. First published in 1659, the year before the Restoration, as BOULEUTERION. Or a Practical Demonstration of County Judicatures, Greenwood's handbook is a useful source of information about the work of sheriffs and other lay officers during the Commonwealth period. Later editions appeared in 1664, 1668, 1675, 1680 and 1685. A revised edition appeared in 1703. English Short-Title Catalogue R209680. (Inventory #: 82069)