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First edition, presentation copy, inscribed “from the author” on the title page, of this uncommon text on the law of usury by the York barrister Mark Ord (1772–1805). Octavo (213 × 131 mm). Modern quarter calf, black spine morocco label, marbled paper sides, edges sprinkled brown. Two ink deletions to text of pp. 61 and 75. First and final gatherings foxed, very minor loss to lower corner of leaf I1, overall a bright, clean copy. ¶ Goldsmiths’ 17062; Kress B.3478. The British Critic , 1798, article VI, p. 510. £850 [124550]
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Octavo. Original charcoal bead-cloth, rebacked, front cover lettered in gilt, blind-stamped panel of double fillet with scrollwork corner decoration to covers, new pale yellow endpapers. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Table at rear. Wellcome Library deaccession stamp to title page verso, a few instances of marginalia. Wear to cover extremities, fore edge of half-title neatly reinforced, contents crisp and generally clean with the occasional faint spot, some shallow chips to fore edge of A8 and a couple of small closed tears to leaf edges, original rear free endpaper preserved at rear, on verso of which is penned a short biography of Croft. Overall a very good copy. ¶ Cushing N100; Osler 7739. Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School , vol. 12 of the Collected Works , 2009; Victor Skretkowicz, Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing & Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes: Commemorative Edition with Historical Commentary , 2010. £10,000 [144140] 121 ORD, Mark. An Essay on the Law of Usury. London: printed for E. and R. Brooke, and for J. Todd, York, 1797
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