ANONYMOUS -

The Laws concerning travelling, &c viz. 1. robbery, 2. of such accidents as the traveller is liable to upon the road, 3. what satisfaction he shall have where he suffers by bad ways (...) 4. of land-carriage (...) 5. of innkeepers (...) 6. of water-carriage (...) 7. of negotiating bills of exchange, 8. of the currency of money, 9. of the laws for regulating hackney-coaches.

Savoy (London), Nutt and R. Gosling, 1718.

8vo. In a contemporary modest full calf binding. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Leather to lower part of back board with tear and partly detached, showing the wooden boards underneath. Previous owner's name to title-page, but internally fine and clean. (13), 237, (3) pp. 

Scarce first edition of this legal guidebook, generally accepted to be the first work of its kind in English. It was later reprinted in Bristol.

Goldsmiths 5424.2
Kress 3063.

Order-nr.: 61023