The Pocket Lawyer and Family Conveyancer...

...Comprising a selection of forms necessary in all mercantile and money transaction, including every direction essential to the magistrate and private individual : laid down in so plain a manner, as to enable every person to transact his own concerns, without the assistance of a lawyer. To which is added, an abridged law dictionary, and a fee bill. Embellished with upwards of twenty pages of script, serving as a model for good writing.

Quarter calf with printed paper boards, 12mo, 132pp. A Fair copy with chipping to the paper covering, splitting at joint, dampstaining to last 40 or so pages, pencil scribble to 64-65, and heavy overall signs of use--including being signed by its owner, Abner Patrick, at least 8 times between 1834 and 1844, presumably as a form of practice, marking a decade of reference (and improvement). An early edition of a book which saw many reprints over the subsequent decades, whose wear is evidence of its usefulness.