University of California Press, 1984. First edition. Brown cloth with silver titles on spine. In good clean condition. No inscriptions or markings. 421pp.
"This book is about the later Stuart and early Hanoverian commission of the peace, an institution which contemporaries regarded as peculiarly English. Members of the commission were justices of the peace, and the commission established the justices as both magistrates and local governors of the county for which they were commissioned."