15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 49
 

49

Baron and Feme A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives. Printed by Eliz....

Baron and Feme
A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq., 1719. 8vo, full calf; provenance: M. Verney Fermanagh (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown). Second edition, with large additions.
First published in 1700, this was the first work exclusively devoted to family law. According to the author "I have herein considered Baron and Feme in all the Circumstances of Life, from the Solemnization of Marriage to the Divorce, and have not omitted 'those Collateral By-blows, (the title of Bastardy making a considerable figure in our books;) and the Variety of the Matter made me some Attonement for the Labour".

Sold for £100
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

. Binding worn with loss, loss of top corners of ffep and rfep, generally clean internally.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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