This edition of Richard Hooker's Laws is a version, with modernised spelling, of volumes i–iii of the standard critical Folger Library edition. As A. S. McGrade, the editor, notes ‘Spelling has been modernised word-for-word, without paraphrase or substitution of phrases for single words (hence “boldlier” rather than “more boldly”).’ This makes for a text which is particularly faithful to the original while being easier to read, even if the cadences of Hooker's prose are sometimes lost. Non-English material in Hooker's notes is translated, including the titles of works cited, with concise references to modern editions and translations being provided in square brackets. The text of Hooker's original notes can be found in an appendix. This makes the edition significantly more accessible for modern readers. The two-volume Folger commentary on the Laws is not included, but is replaced by a sixty-three-page précis, in addition to material briefly surveying Hooker's life, the context of the Laws, his readership and style. The apparatus not only includes a guide to Hooker's sources, a bibliography and index of scriptural citations, but – crucially – a subject index, which the Folger edition regrettably lacks. The notes of Hooker's pupils, George Cranmer and Edwin Sandys, on what was clearly once a much fuller version of book vi which has not survived, are sadly not reproduced, nor is some other autograph material on the later books. All in all, though, this is a very useful, if pricey, edition of this major work, attractive and easy to use while still suitable for most scholarly purposes.