Legal tracts | A volume belonging to the Rev. Francis Astry, 1637-1648, contemporary calf

Legal tracts

A volume of legal tracts, 1639-1648, belonging to the Rev. Francis Astry, comprising:

Three learned readings made upon three very usefull statutes: the first... of wills... the second... concerning jointures... the third... of forcible entry. London: W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, 1648, [Wing D2929]

Sir Edward Coke. A little treatise of baile and maineprize... The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: for William Cooke, 1637, UNCUT, [STC 5490]

Sir Francis Bacon. Cases of treason. London: the assignes of John More, to be sold by Matthew Walbancke and William Coke, 1641, woodcut device on title-page, [Wing B272]

A briefe declaration for what manner of speciall nusance concerning private dwelling houses, a man may have his remedy by Assise, or other action as the case requires. London: Thomas Cotes, for William Cooke, 1639, [STC 6454.5]

4 works in one volume, 4to (184 x 132mm.), later seventeenth-century speckled calf, manuscript list of contents on flyleaf in a contemporary hand, occasional light soiling, rebacked, spine chipped at foot

PROVENANCE

A gift from Francis Astry (or Astrey), of Woodend in Bedfordshire, dated 11 April 1741, inscription on second flyleaf (repeated at end) with another manuscript list of contents, i.e. the Rev. Dr Francis Astrey (1676-1766), Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral (his property inherited by Francis Penyston of Cornwell, Oxfordshire); Cornwell House, ink stamp on flyleaf