The new retorna brevium
Subtitle: collected from the many printed law-books extant, concerning the retorn of writs in the courts of Chancery, Exchequer, King's Bench, &c., alphabetically digested in their proper order : to which are added and intermixed many special modern retorns not heretofore made publick, with many useful notes and observations throughout the whole : necessary for all sheriffs, under-sheriffs, clerks, attorneys, sollictors, mayors, bailiffs of liberties, coroners, &c. : as also for the officers of the several counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Durham : with a compleat alphabetical table respecting the said several courts in their order
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The third edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.), for T. Waller ...
Published: 1738
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Writs
Notes: "To the reader" signed: R.G.

A reissue of the 1728 edition with a cancel title page. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]²(±[A]1) B-2L⁸ 2M².

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1931

English short title catalogue, entry N10278

In English and Latin.

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials by signatures I and T. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.