The lawyers light: or, A due direction for the study of the law
Subtitle: for methode, choyce of bookes moderne, selection of authours of more antiquitie, application of either. Accommodation of diuers other vsefull requisits. All tending to the speedy and more easie attayning of the knowledge of the common law of this kingdome. With necessary cautions against certaine abuses or ouersights, aswell in the practitioner as student
By: Written by the reuerend and learned professor thereof, I.D. To which is annexed for the affinitie of the subiect, another treatise, called The vse of the law
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet] for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at his shop in Aldersgate street, at the signe of the Talbot.
Published: 1629
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Law; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching
Other titles: Lawyers light; Lawyers light: or, A due direction for the study of the law; Due direction for the study of the law; Vse of the law; Use of the law.
Notes: I.D. = Sir John Doddridge.

Printers' names from STC.

In two parts.

Second part has separate dated title page: "The vse of the law. Provided for preservation of our persons, goods, and good names. According to the practise of the lawes and customes of this land." It is anonymous, and has been attributed with doubtful validity to Francis Bacon.

Collation: [par.]⁴ A⁴ (-A4) B-Q⁴ [$3 signed; [par.]1 blank]; A-N⁴ [$3 signed; N4 blank]

Initials; head-pieces; type ornaments.

Includes bibliographical references.

ESTC S109766

STC (2nd ed.) 6983

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 34)

Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in Nov. 1884.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets; vellum guards of manuscript waste.