Smith (Sir Thomas) The Common-vvealth of England, and the maner of gouernement thereof...With new additions of the chiefe courts in England, and the offices thereof by the said author...newly corrected and amended, initial f. blank and with verso a contemporary ink manuscript table 'A Catalogue of all Shires, Cities, Bishoprickes, Market towns, Castles, Parishes, Rivers, Bridges...of the Kingdome of England', title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, [STC 22864; ESTC S117649], Printed by VVilliam Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard, vnder the Dyall, 1621 bound with Church of England. Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall. Treated vpon by the Bishop of London, president of the conuocation for the prouince of Canterbury, title with woodcut ornaments, woodcut royal arms to head of B3, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, small worm trace to inner gutters (mostly at end), [STC 10072.5; ESTC S4276], By Robert Barker, 1612 and Thomas Rogers, 'The Faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, and protected in the realme of England', John Legatt, [STC 21229; ESTC S116123], 1621, together 3 works in 1 vol., spotting and staining, mostly lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, spine with contemporary ms. ink titles and a later small paper label at head, soiled, small 4to

⁂ I: Sir Thomas Smith (1513-1577), English scholar, parliamentarian and diplomat. He was the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and later became Provost of Eton College. The present work is Smith's pioneering study of English social, judicial and political systems.