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Women's rights.- Law.- Edgar (Thomas) The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, first edition, printed by [Miles Flesher for] the assignes of Iohn More Esq., 1632.

Women's rights.- Law.- [Edgar (Thomas, editor)] The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinoins, Arguments and Points of Learning in the Law, as doe properly concerne Women, first edition, black letter, title within double filet border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, occasional spotting, some mostly light water-staining to upper corners towards end, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt, with a black morocco label, corners repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, [STC 7437], 4to, Printed by [Miles Flesher for] the assignes of Iohn More Esq. and are to be sold by Iohn Groue, at his shop neere the Rowles in Chancery-Lane, over against the Sixe-Clerkes-Office, 1632. ⁂ First edition of the earliest work in English devoted to laws relating to women. It includes divorce, hermaphroditism, polygamy, promises of marriage, rape and wooing. The work is sometimes attributed to Sir John Dodderidge.