A treatise of the lawes of the forest
Subtitle: wherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests, and what a forest is ... : also a treatise of the pourallee ...
By: collected, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundrie learned anncient authors ... ; whereunto are added the statutes of the forest ...
Publisher: Printed for the Societie of stationers
Published: 1615
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Game laws; Forests and forestry; Great Britain
Other titles: Forest laws.
Notes: Signatures: [pi symbol]⁸ ([pi symbol] preceding title blank), [circle of dots]⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Ii⁸, Kk³.

Several errors infoliation. Folios 107 and 108, 109, and 110, 179 and 180, 181 and 182, 211 and 212, 213 and 214, 227 and 228, 229 and 230 transposed in binding.

Partly in black letter. Woodcut initials.

"Manwood compiled and printed in 1592 (at first for private circulation) a compendium of forest law entitled 'A brefe collectionof the lawes of the forest ...' The first published edition ... appeared in 1598, London; 2d ed., 1599. A new and enlarged edition was published in 1615 ..."--Dict. of nat. biog.

"Carta de Foresta, of King Canutus a Dane, and a King of this Realme, graunted at a Parliament holden at Winchester, in the yeare of our Lord 1016 ... [and other statutes concerning forests]": numb. leaves 1-17.

Signature of Wm. Venner on fly leaf.

Ms. recipes on 2d fly leaf: "For the mange of a dogge" and "For the biting of a maddedogge".

Binder's title: Manwood's Forest laws.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17292