first edition Manuscript Bound in Red Morocco
1715 · [London]
by [British Parliament, House of Lords - 18th Century Manuscript]
[London]: [House of Lords], 1715. Manuscript Bound in Red Morocco. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 104 with several blanks at either end. Written in a cursive clerical hand, 16-17 lines per page within red-ruled borders. AEG; marbled endpapers. Bound in contemporary red morocco gilt paneled with the royal arms of George I in gilt on both covers, the spine with five raised bands. Ghost of a bookplate on FFEP, small line of worming through rear endleaves narrowing to a single hole on the blank leaves. Small unobtrusive repairs to joints. Withal, a sturdy binding. ANS laid-in, 1918, from Thomas Greg. The manuscript, concluding in 1715, details 104 Orders, Rules, Trials, (truncated)