Lot 12

Law.- Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony) La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge tresreuerend mo[n]sieur Anthony Fitzherbert..., 2 parts in 1, Richard Tottel, 1577.

Hammer Price: £550

Description

Law.- Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony) La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge tresreuerend mo[n]sieur Anthony Fitzherbert..., 2 parts in 1, black letter, titles within ornate woodcut architectural borders, woodcut historiated initials, early ownership inscriptions to head of first title, few marginal defects, some light damp-staining near start, some light spotting, browning, often light and to margins, ex-Haverfordwest reference library with ink-stamps to pastedown and first title verso, contemporary panelled calf, covers with central blind-tooled lozenge, rebacked, lower cover corner repaired, covers worn at extremities with loss, later endpapers, [STC 10957], small folio, Richard Tottel, 1577.

⁂ An important work of its time (first published between 1514 and 1517), it was "an enormous enterprise for its day, a massive digest of 13,845 cases from the year-books arranged under alphabetical headings" (ODNB).

Description

Law.- Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony) La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge tresreuerend mo[n]sieur Anthony Fitzherbert..., 2 parts in 1, black letter, titles within ornate woodcut architectural borders, woodcut historiated initials, early ownership inscriptions to head of first title, few marginal defects, some light damp-staining near start, some light spotting, browning, often light and to margins, ex-Haverfordwest reference library with ink-stamps to pastedown and first title verso, contemporary panelled calf, covers with central blind-tooled lozenge, rebacked, lower cover corner repaired, covers worn at extremities with loss, later endpapers, [STC 10957], small folio, Richard Tottel, 1577.

⁂ An important work of its time (first published between 1514 and 1517), it was "an enormous enterprise for its day, a massive digest of 13,845 cases from the year-books arranged under alphabetical headings" (ODNB).

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