MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest ... The Third Edition, London, 1665, 8vo, printed in black letter (mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). With 2 defective books. (3)

MANWOOD, John (d.1610).  A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest, Wherein is declaered not onely those Laws, as they are now in force, but also the Original and beginning of Forests; and what a Forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Park, or a Warren ... Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what a Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own Pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his own Chase; together with the limits and bounds, as well of the Forest, as the Pourallee ... The Third Edition Corrected, and much Inlarged. London: "Printed for the Company of Stationers," 1665. 8vo (178 x135mm). Printed in black letter, woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks a1 [?blank], i.e. all before title, title spotted and shaved at foot, variable mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary full calf (rebacked, quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, a few old repairs, new endpapers). Provenance: some later mainly pencil annotation. Cf. Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; Wing M554. See DNB for a list of the various editions of "this excellent work", including the first which was printed for private circulation in 1592. The author is described in the same reference work as "... a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest, and justice of the New Forest." With 2 other books, namely Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland ... Written first in Latine by William Camden ... Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland ... Finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry Additions by the said Author (London, "Impensis Georgii Bishop", 1610, folio, lacks all the maps, defective, contemporary reverse calf) and The Book of Common-Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments (London, 1662, folio, fine engraved architectural title, black letter, elaborate woodcut initials and decorations, prayers for "Gunpowder. Treason" at the end, many repairs, with some sections supplied in manuscript, later annotation, modern old-style half calf. The lot sold not subject to return. (3)