MANUSCRIPT, LEGAL - A substantial legal manuscript on paper recording numerous copies of chancery affidavits, conveyances, petitions, legal precedents, etc., in a fine italic hand, [mid-late 18th-century], 536-pages, folio, contemporary full vellum.

MANUSCRIPT, LEGAL - A substantial legal manuscript on paper recording numerous copies of chancery affidavits, conveyances, petitions, legal precedents, etc., with additional index pages, all in an exceptionally fine italic hand, [mid-late 18th-century], 536-pages, folio (322 x 205mm). Contemporary full vellum, marbled endpapers (some staining, spine darkened). Provenance: "Precedent. [?]Frans Ward" and illegible volume number written in old manuscript on the spine, [?]"Frans Ward" repeated in old manuscript on the front pastedown (some staining to the vellum); very occasional later pencil annotation; later pencil note listing the most interesting cases and page numbers taped to the front free endpaper, and another similar loosely-inserted.