DALTON, Michael (d. ca. 1648). Officium Vicecomitum, The Office and Authoritie of the Sherifs? London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1623. Folio in sixes. Title in woodcut bootstrap frame, woodcut head? and tail?pieces, initials (small corner tear to upper margin of title). Full contemporary calf ruled in blind, raised bands, all edges red, original endpapers laid down (spine ends discreetly laid down with old repairs at corners). (Contemporary marginalia, sigs. f3, Ee, and Ee6 in contemporary manuscript on both recto and verso, final 2 blanks with small voids at outer margin). Provenance: R. Rowley (signature to title). FIRST EDITION of the first English treatise on sheriffs. Holdsworth, History of English Law IV:119; ESTC S107284. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.