Tabula libri assisaru[m] [et] pl[ac]itorum corone
Publisher: John Rastell
Published: 1514
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng; lat
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800; Pleas of the crown
Other titles: Tabula libri assisarum et placitorum corone; Tabula libri assisarum & placitorum corone; Liber assisarum et placitorum corone
Work titles: Year books (Edward III : 1327-1377)
Notes: First leaf: Tabula libri assisaru[m] [et] pl[ac]itorum corone; with devices of John Rastell (McKerrow, Devices, no. 37 & 40) framed within bands of typographical ornaments.

Leaf a1 has title: Liber assisarum [et] placitorum corone, with Rastell's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 40) within border of typographical ornaments.

Imprint information suggested by STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: [pi]⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ A-R⁶ S⁸ [$4 signed]

In black letter type.

Side notes.

This edition has two variants. One (Beale R49) was printed without a colophon. The other (Beale R48) has an added explicit and Latin quatrain below the end of the text on leaf S7v.

Law reports selected from manuscript year books of 1-50 Edward III.

ESTC S121691

STC (2nd ed.) 9599

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R48

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R49

Received April 5, 1904; purchased from W.H. Hoyles.

Prologue in English, text in Law French.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 229)

Ex libris Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, Earl of Ilchester -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Thomas Berkenhead -- Ralph Wilbraham -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess.

Ex libris William Clayton -- William Smythe.

This copy is Beale R48, with the explicit Latin quatrain below the end of the text on leaf S7v.

Bookplate of George Dunn. Price notations (16-17th cent.?) in upper corner of title page. Marginal annotations and folios numbered in a 16th century hand; some portions lost due to close cropping.

This copy is Beale R48, with the explicit Latin quatrain below the end of the text on leaf S7v.

Engraved armorial bookplate of Earl of Ilchester, probably Henry Stephen Fox Strangways. Signed Griffins & Weigalls, 3 St, James St.

Copy imperfect; lacking final blank leaf.

This copy is Beale R48, with the explicit Latin quatrain below the end of the text on leaf S7v.

Remains of edgemark: Assisarum. Head of title: "Liber Radulphi Wilbraham empt de Thomâ Berkened [i.e. Berkenhead?] Febr. 1660". Wilbraham may be Ralph Wilbraham, admitted to Gray's Inn in 1656. With some contemporary marginal annotations. Two conjugate leaves from a unidentified liturgical work printed in red and black are tipped in at the end, one pair of the original endpapers. Type has been identified with material used by Wolfgang Hopyl and N. Higman in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (BM 15th cent., VIII, pl. XVI) Another set of endpapers was a 1549 Privy Council proclamation (STC 7828.3), now separate from the binding and cataloged separately.

Copy imperfect; lacking leaf a1.

This copy is Beale R49, printed without a colophon.

Undeciphered remains of edge-mark. At head of title in late 17th century hand: Fid[es] semper satq[ua]m sapit. At foot of title: "Iste liber constat Willmo. Clayton" (crossed out) and "Wylliam Smyth", in 16th century hands. Clayton was possibly the William Clayton admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1506. Marginal annotations in 16th and 17th century hands. At end is an index, [2] leaves, written in an early hand, with Smythe's signature.

Bound in 17th century plain and sprinkled calf, decorated in blind with fillets, decorative roll, and corner ornaments, in Cambridge pane. Edges lightly sprinkled in red. Rebacked.

Bound in 19th century half calf and marbled paper covered boards, all edges sprinkled red.

Bound in worn, later 16th century calf over wood, decorated in blind with fillets and "quatrefoils in lozenges" roll (Oldham, Blind tooled, no. DI. a(8) 598 and "side view" roll (SV. a(2) 925). Corner ornaments on covers and spine. Lower brass clasp and back of upper remaining. Rebacked.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets and a "bird, dog, bee" roll (Oldham, Blind tooled, no. AN. b (2) 555) and pineapple ornaments (A(1) 959), probably London bound. Remains of brass clasps on front and back covers. Rebacked.