The scrivener's guide
Subtitle: being choice and approved forms of precedents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet extant : and useful for all gentlemen, especially those that practice the law, viz. : articles of agreement, assignments, acquittances, bankrupts, bargains and sales, bills, bonds, certificates, conditions, copartnerships, copyhold precedents, covenants, defeazances, deputations, grants, jointures, indentures, leases, letters of attorney, licences, memorials, mortgages, obligations, partitions, petitions, provisoes, releases, revocations, settlements of estates, warrants, &c., wills
By: by Nicholas Covert ...
Contributors: Wilson, George, -1816; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth editions, revised, corrected and much enlarged with very large additions, particularly relating to bankruptcy, and the whole made agreeable to the present practice / by an Able hand.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for T. Woodward ..., D. Browne ..., J. Shuckburgh ..., C. Hitch ..., and J. Hodges ...
Published: 1740
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1018
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Forms (Law)
Notes: Continuously paged.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2K⁸ 2L⁴, [A]² B-2L⁸ 2M².

Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] in front and [2] p. at end; v. 2, p. [2] in front and p. [32] at end.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1943

English short title catalogue, entry N62283

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T in both volumes. Both volumes have the armorial bookplates of Reuben Skelton, and the 1815 bookplates of the Library of Congress.