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Clerk's Manual With Plates Depicting Court and Chancery Hands [Hawkins, John]. Ollyff, Tho[mas], Plates. The Young Clerk's Tutor Enlarged: Being a Most Useful Collection of the Best Presidents of Recognizances, Obligations, Conditions, Acquittances, Bills of Sale, Warrants of Attorney, &c. Also Names of Men and Women in Latin, Day of the Date, The Several Sums of Money, And Addition of Several Trades, In Their Proper Cases, As They Stand in the Obligations. With Directions of Writs of Habeas Corpus, Certiorari, Writs of Errors, &c. To All Cities and Towns Corporate, Hundred and Manor Courts. Likewise the Best Presidents of All Manner of Concords of Fines and Directions How to Sue Out a Fine, With Many Judicious Observations Therein. With Many Other Things Very Necessary, And Readily Fitting Every Man's Occasion: As by a New and Exact Table of What is Contained in This Book, Will Appear. To Which are Annexed Several of the Best Copies Both of Court and Chancery Hand Now Extant. By Tho. Ollyff, Writing Master, At the Hand and Pen in Fetter-Lane. Purged From the Errors of All Former Impressions. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Betterworth [et al.], 1728. [xvi], 207, [1] pp. 4 copperplates of chancery hands. With a half-title and advertisment leaf (verso of p. 207). Octavo (6-1/4" x 4"). Contemporary sheep, rebacked in period style, blind frames to boards, blind tooling to board edges, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint and hinge starting, corners bumped and somewhat worn. Moderate toning to interior, fold lines and light foxing to a few leaves, wear to lower outside corners of half-title, title page and following two leaves with no loss to text. $450. * Seventeenth edition. First published in 1660, this popular guide went through several editions and revisions. It provides a vivid introduction to the forms and vocabulary that clerks were required to master, and remains useful to students of history and paleography today. English Short-Title Catalogue T108919.