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1586. La graunde abridgement : collecte & escrie
Uniform Title
Graunde abridgement
Title
1586. La graunde abridgement : collecte & escrie / per le iudge tresreuerend Sir Robert Brooke chiualer, nadgairs chiefe Iustice del common banke.
Published
[London] : In aedibus Richardi Tottellj, vicesimo nono die Septemb. 1586.
Physical Description
[4], 351, [1], 328 leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Local Notes
BEIN Osborn fpa24: Imperfect: small hole in leaf 94, second series; loss of text with paper repair on leaf 161, second series. Leaf 2S8 of part 2 is 1st setting, with colophon. Armorial binding, facsimile gilt signature, and Bramton Castle armorial bookplate of Robert Harley. Cancelled ownership inscriptions on title page. Unidentified bookplate with identifying information cancelled on front pastedown endpaper. Manuscript underlining and marginalia. From the library of Anthony Taussig.
Notes
Based on the work of the same name by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert.
Part 2 has separate dated title page, foliation, and register.
Includes index.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richard Tottyl. Anno Dom[ini]. 1586.
Signatures: [par]⁴ A-2X⁸, A-2S⁸.
Sheet 2S1,8 of part 2 is in two settings, (1) with or (2) without colophon.
Format
Books
Language
Romance (Other)
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2019
References
Beale, J.H. Bibliography of early English law books , R473, R474
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3829
English short title catalogue, S107105
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Early works.
Annotations (Provenance) - 16th century.
Armorial bindings (Provenance)
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
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