12mo. [4], 138pp, [10]. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked, some scoring to boards, lower joint split. Pastedowns sprung, without fly-leaves, minute worm-track to foot of text-block, early inked ownership inscriptions of William Kinsey and Thomas Kinsey to FEP and head of title respectively.

An early revised and extended edition of a vade mecum designed to assist parish administrators in their interpretation and enforcement of increasingly complex laws surrounding social reform, including the Poor Law Act of 1601 and its numerous amendments, the duties of constables and highway surveyors, and the statutes relating to hackney coaches. First published in 1718, the work is commonly attributed to legal writer Giles Jacob (bap. 1686, d. 1744), author of The Compleat Court-Keeper (1713)