An Address to the Attorneys at Law and Solicitors, Practising.. by Day, Joseph - 1796

1796. A Plan to Promote the "Respectability, Esteem, And Confidence" of the British Legal Profession Day, Joseph. An Address to the Attorneys at Law and Solicitors, Practising, In Great Britain, And to the Public, Upon the Proceedings of a Committee of the London Law Club, Relative to a Bill Proposed to be Presented to Parliament for the Incorporating and Better Regulation of the Practitioners; Together with Extracts from a Journal, Kept by the Author, Of Transactions had in Prosecution of the Proposed Measure. From June 1794, To January 1796; And also, Some Observations on the Professional Corporations in England and Scotland, And on Several Acts of Parliament, And Rules of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, Relative to Attorneys. London: Printed and Sold Only by the Author, 1796. iv, 212 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title and blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Light browning to text, faint dampspotting in a few places, small chip near upper corner of title page, neat corrections in a fine early hand to a few passages, most likely by the author or a printer. A handsomely bound copy of a rare title. $1,250. * Only edition. Day was a member of the London Law Club. His pamphlet was intended to enlist support for a set of proposals drafted by his club to influence a proposed bill before Parliament designed to regulate the legal profession. "It appeared to me that the profession could by no other means attain the high degree of respectability, esteem, and confidence so extremely desired" (33-34). This is a rare title. OCLC locates 2 copies (University of Manchester, Yale Law School). English Short-Title Catalogue T187775.