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The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum Or Compleat Law-Tutor Being a Useful.

1776Best.-Nr. 746381776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Revolution-Era New York Edition of a Popular JP Manual Justice of the Peace Manual. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum: Or Compleat Law-Tutor. Being a Useful Collection of a Great Variety of the Most Approved Precedents in the Law And Adapted to Almost Every Transaction in Life Wherein an Attention to Legal Forms is Indispensably Necessary. . To Which is Added A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed by H. Gaine In Hanover-Square 1776. xii 236; iv 86 10 pp. Two parts each with title page and individual pagination. The title part for the second part reads in part: A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Final two leaves are publisher advertisements. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Recent period-style calf raised bands and retained early lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. A few minor scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities joints and front hinge starting at ends corners bumped crack in text block between rear endleaf and free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places faint early owner signature John Forbus to title page. $750. Later edition. "In those days when anyone who was anybody was a judge and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace a vademecum.was an essential tool." Cohen. Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading this popular work derived from an English manual first published in 1723 covers topics such as bonds bills of sale grants indentures and wills. The final edition was printed in Dublin in 1795. Gaine's edition is a reprint of an edition published in Belfast in 1771. He also issued the second part as an independent title. One of the early owners of this copy was likely John Forbus 1737-1827 a Poughkeepsie resident who served as deputy sheriff and held a number of other important local positions. Cohen "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library" 61 Law Library Journal 1968 440 445. English Short-Title Catalogue W21107. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 8207. unknown