A Pocket Dictionary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank Notes, Checks & c. With an Appendix, Containing Abstracts of Acts and Select Cases Relative to Negotiable Securities, Analysis of a Count in Assumpsit, Tables of Notarial Fees, Stamps, Postage, &c by Maxwell, John Irving - 1802

London: Clarke and Sons, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. First published in London in 1802, this is an unusual legal compendium: "it is intended as a complete compendium to the Merchant and Man of Business, whether in his Compting house or travelling to any distant part of the country ... [it] may enable him to act with promptitude where legal advice cannot be procured, and where delay might be productive of mischief" (xv). Maxwell was also the author of 'The Spirit of Maritime Laws'. Small 8vo, xvi, 248pp, 20pp pale blue blank note paper. Contemporary calf, with raised bands and gilt rules at spine. Rubbed at extremities and spine. Internally, exceptionally bright and clean, no owner signatures, no toning to leaves. OCLC: 39621957 records 2 copies. It cites 251pp; the binding here indicates that the 2 pages were never bound in.