A Complete Guide to Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, Being a.

Unrecorded imprint. A Rare Unrecorded Printing of a Popular Georgian Guide to Tenancy Law Sutton, Robert. A Complete Guide to Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, Being a Methodical Arrangement of the Whole Law as it Now Stands, Respecting the Taking or Letting Lands, Houses, Or Apartments, Giving Warning, Or Notices to Quit; Ejecting, Seizing for Rent, Repairs, &c. With Forms of Leases, Agreements, Assignments, Surrenders, Notices, Receipts for Rent, &c. In a Great Variety of Situations, Whether as Lessor, Lessee, Or Tenant at Will, Communicated in an Easy and Familiar Manner. Including Ample Introductions for Landlords to Conduct Themselves Legally and Securely Towards Their Tenants; And to Enable Tenants to Guard Against Encroaching Landlords. With Clear and Practical Directions for Making a Distress for Rent, &c. With All the New Adjudged Cases and Acts of Parliament, Down to 1802. London: Printed by W. Stratford for J. Stratford, 1802. [iv], 108 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets to calf edges, lettering piece and gilt fillets and date to spine, endpapers renewed. Light fading to spine, light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places. $450. * Fourth Stated Edition. Written for a popular lay audience by barrister Robert Sutton, this work served as an essential, accessible handbook during a period of rapid urbanization in Georgian Britain. As the preface dramatically asserts, "three fourths of the Inhabitants of Great Britain are composed of Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers." By the turn of the nineteenth century, lodging had become ubiquitous across British society-present in an estimated one-eighth of all households-creating widespread legal anxiety over leases, unpaid rent, distraint of goods, and property damage. Sutton's manual offered a balanced, practical toolkit for both parties: advising landlords on legal eviction and distraint procedures while warning tenants against "encroaching landlords" and predatory rent practices. It includes a generous appendix of workable legal instruments, including standard forms for leases, notices to quit, assignment of tenancies, and rental receipts. First published around 1796, the work's immense utility proved enduring, going through at least eleven editions by 1821. Despite its commercial success, survival rates for physical copies o.…