The Touch-stone of common assurances
Subtitle: Or, a plain and familiar treatise, opening the learning of the common assurances or conveyances of the kingdome
By: By William Sheppard Esquire, sometimes of the Middle Temple
Series: Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed by M. F. [Miles Flesher] for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell.
Published: 1648
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
Subjects: Conveyancing; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Plain and familiar treatise, opening the learning of the common assurances or conveyances of the kingdome
Notes: Collation: A⁶ B-Y⁸ Z⁶ 2A-2L⁸ 2M⁴ [$4 (+A3, A4, +2M3) signed]

Quarto in 8's.

Error in pagination: pages 349-352 omitted in numbering.

Initials; head-pieces; type ornaments.

Side notes.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00961.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wing (2nd ed.) S3214

Ex libris Thomas Smith -- Worcester County Law Library -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Walter Jobber -- Northwestern University School of Law Library -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

On title page, signature of Thomas Smith, with price notation and date 1686. Embossed with stamp of the Worcester County Law Library.

On front flyleaf: 'Liber Walteri Jobber' in a contemporary hand. On title page, a contemporary price notation. Ink stamp of the Northwestern University Law School Library, Chicago, dated May 19, 1925; embossed stamp of the Elbert H. Cary Library of Law, Northwestern University Law School. Letter 'C' written at foot of title page; bookseller's code? A few early marginal annotations.

At head of title, 'John Wolcomb' (?) in a contemporary hand.

Bound in worn 17th century calf decorated in blind with fillets; pastedowns of printed waste (page [leaf?] 393 with running title: Consilium CXCV); rebacked.