1771 THE FIRST EDITION OF BOTT'S CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF LAWS RELATING TO THE POOR 049. [BOTT, Edmund.] A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws, down to the present time. In which are continued, many cases never before published; extracted from the notes of a very eminent barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular order. By a Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the Poor. London: W. Strahan and M. Woodfall. n.d. [1771]. 18,lxxiii, 291. Contemporary sheep, hinges cracked but otherwise a very nice copy. MAXWELL AND MAXWELL, A legal bibliography, Section IV - Poor Law, 1. Not in BLESTC. DLL, CLL, MH-L, MH-BA only in NUC. The first edition of an important collection many times reprinted, usually with significant additions, as the law relating to the poor evolved.