[London] In the Savoy : Printed for J. Nutt, Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear’s-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand 1715. 8vo, A-Z, Aa-Mm8, Nn4, [xvi], 552 pp, folding table, cont. calf, morocco label, short split to front hinge, head and foot of spine chipped, cords sounds, signature of Joh.(?) Vernon dated 1717 in ink on title.
First published in 1680, this is the eighth and last edition brought up to date with the latest cases. As a handbook for J.P.s it is very much more than a simple catalogue of felonies and misdemeanours and the appropriate punishments: it sets out the rules and regulations by which early 18th century society was ordered. There are the statutory minimum wages for more than sixty different occupations, and the folding table gives the weight of one-penny to eighteen-penny loaves of bread according to the price of grain. The duties of various different officials such as the clergy, constables, soldiers and sheriffs are set out, as well as the rules governing papists, inn-keepers, apprentices, the poor and many others. In sum a detailed social document.
Reference: ESTC T133419

London : Printed for T. Osborne... 1745. Second Edition
8vo, 5ff, 147, [3], 30 pp, 12 engr. plates of coins, [2] pp (adverts), contemporary sprinkled calf, double-fillet gilt borders, lacks label on spine, edges sprinkled red, fine copy.
Bishop Fleetwood had been required to adjudicate whether the statutes of a college (founded c. 1450) making the possession of an estate of £5 per annum a bar to the retention of a fellowship should be taken literally, or with regard to the altered value of money. In the present work he attempts to establish a price equivalent in 1706 for the £5 set in the fifteenth century. The result is the earliest treatise on index-numbers and one of the best, where the conception of purchasing power and the measures of changing purchasing power of money are first treated after the modern manner.
Reference: Kress 4758 Goldsmiths 8173

London : Printed for T. Osborne... 1745. Second Edition
8vo, 5ff, 147, [3], 30 pp, [2] pp (adverts), 12 engr. plates of coins, contemporary sprinkled calf, double-fillet gilt borders, HINGES CRACKED, CORDS SOUND.

Bishop Fleetwood had been required to adjudicate whether the statutes of a college (founded c. 1450) making the possession of an estate of £5 per annum a bar to the retention of a fellowship should be taken literally, or with regard to the altered value of money. In the present work he attempts to establish a price equivalent in 1706 for the £5 set in the fifteenth century. The result is the earliest treatise on index-numbers and one of the best, where the conception of purchasing power and the measures of changing purchasing power of money are first treated after the modern manner.
Reference: Kress 4758 Goldsmiths 8173

London : Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand, and sold by R. Ackermann, Jun. 191, Regent Street.... 1831. First Edition
Large 4to, (340 x 280mm), title-page, 8 pages of text, 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates and one panoramic “supplimentary” plate (folded), contemporary (original?) marbled boards, very rubbed, recently rebacked in calf, large morocco title label on front board titled in gilt “Liverpool & Manchester Railway”, a very good copy.
Issued it two parts, the first of which was titled “Six Views....”on the paper wrappers and when later the same year (1831) the second part was published the printed title-page became “Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway”. The aquatints are all fine early impressions with watermarks on plates 3, 7, 13 and the supplimental plate reading “J. Whatman 1831”, the folded plate has the almost inevitable tear through being carelessly unfolded but this has been expertly and almost invisibly mended. Two supplimentary plates, not by Bury, were issued separately at four shillings and sixpence each and are sometimes added to the work; only one of these is present in our copy.
The provence of this copy is interesting; across the front pastedown is the signature of “Julia de Roubigné Beevor Fulcher, 1831” whose address, according to the Archdeaconry of Norfolk archives, was Stanfield Hall, Wymondham where she married Edward Palmer Clarke, solicitor in June 1846. The bookseller’s label on the front pastedown is of “John Stacy, Norwich”, leading one to the conclusion that this copy was sold new and that the binding is the original one.
“Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.. is undoubtedly the finest of the various series of prints... published to mark the occasion” - Hugh Broadbent.

N.p. [Paris] : 1751. 12mo, [4], 266 pp, cont. mottled calf, fully gilt spine, morocco label, marbled e-p’s, early signature of “J. Leslie Foster” in brown ink at head of title-page. A good copy.
A note to this edition in the Bibliotheque nationale catalogue online says “Par Ch. Pinot, sieur Duclos, d’apres Barbier. - Differe par le titre, la pagination ou l’adresse de plusieurs autres editions parues la meme annee, dont une autre sans adresse, une a l’adresse (fausse) d’Amsterdam et une a l’adresse de P. Prault avec privilege. - Imprime en France, probablement a Paris, d’apres le materiel et les usages typographiques ainsi que le papier (Bugey)”. Manuscripts giving permission in 1751 for printing this title exist for both the booksellers Prault and Brunet but it has not yet been determined to which of the several editions dated 1751 they refer.
Reference: Barbier. I col.723 Brunet II col. 860 (“Amsterdam” ed. only)
Heltzel : Courtesy Books in Newberry Library 485 (1784 ed. only)