Manwood's Treatise of the Forest Laws.

In the Savoy: E. Nutt, 1717. "Shewing Not only the Laws now in Force, but the Original of Forests, what they are, and how They differ from Cases, Parks, and Warrens; with all such Things as are incident to either." This is the fourth edition of a book first printed privately in 1592. John Manwood had some knowledge of law and may have been a barrister, but he was also a game keeper of Waltham Forest and Justice of the New Forest, a vast tract in southern England. According to Besant, "From Forest to Field," regarding Manwood's book, "While on its face forest law is a system of game laws, in substance it imposed dramatic and effective restraints on the exploitation of natural resources." Kress 3026. Lowdnes p. 1469. Front board, blank, title page, and first Preface leaf detached but present. Bound in full calf Cambridge style binding, rebacked, with red spine label. Ex libris Worcester Law Library, with their call number effaced from bottom of backstrip, and their circular stamp on title page. Some marginal notations in text, possibly by John Secker whose ownership signature is on the title page.. 20 cm. (4), 435, 923 "The Table") pp. (Inventory #: 49517)