THE PRACTICAL JUSTICE OF PEACE: or, A Treatise shewing the Power and Authority of that Office in all its Branches. Extracted from the several Books hitherto written on that Subject, and digested under proper Titles, in an Alphabetical Method. To which are added, Great Variety of the most useful Precedents, inserted under their proper Heads, and brought down to this present Year 1728. Together with an Alphabetical Table of all the Statutes which relate to the Titles contained in this Work, and of the Titles themselves. The Whole fitted for the Use of Justices of Peace, Coroners, Sheriffs, Clerks of Assize, and of the Peace, Commissioners of Sewers, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of Highways, Churchwardens, and others. In Two Volumes.

London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq) for Tho. Ward in the Inner Temple Lane, 1728. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set. Original full calf bindings. Three out of four hinges were archivally re-hinged. Gold-embossed leather spine labels were added to replace the original labels. The first few pages and the final 30 pages of the first volume have minor staining. Vol. I: [i] page of publisher's advertisement, [vi] pages, 635 pages of text, followed by [i] page of publisher's advertisement. Vol. II: [ii], 566 pages of text, followed by [xxiii] pages of index, followed by [i] page of publisher's advertisement. A few pages with minor soiling and creasing. Previous owner's name neatly on a front endpaper. An attractive first edition set.. (Inventory #: 018981)