Liber Albus: The White Book Of The City Of London Carpenter, John; Whitington, Richard History,Law

4to. [5], vi-x, [5], 4-660, [2] pp. Contemporary sheep over beveled-edge boards, decorations in blind on the boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and rules in blind on the spine; all edges red. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge, with the binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Title page printed in red and black. Translated from the original Latin and Anglo-Norman into contemporary English, translation done by Henry Thomas Riley. A compilation of medieval laws and ordinances in effect in Britain. This is the first time this work was published separately in its own volume. The front gutter split but the binding remains secure, overall a sharp example.