La graunde abridgement
By: collect & escrie per le iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, chiualier, nadgairs chiefe iustice del comon banke
Publisher: In aedibus Richardi Tottell
Published: 1573
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: La secounde part du Graund abridgement
Notes: In 2 parts.

Title within architectural woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 122; Devices, no. 147) with quotation at base: Ne moy reproues sauns cause, car mon entent est de bon amoure, and Tottell's initials (R.T.) at foot of base.

Head of titles: 1573.

Pt. 2 has title: La secounde part du Graund abridgement ...

Colophon, pt.2: Imprynted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by Rychard Tottyl, the xxv. day of January. Anno domini. 1573.

Collation: *⁴ A-Yy⁸ ²A-²2S⁸ ²2T¹⁰ [$4 (+ DIKNPTXZ5, 2BEFHLOPQSV5, ²CEFGPQ5, ²2ADFGNOS5) signed]

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic type.

Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.

Side notes.

Includes indexes to each part.

"This is an abstract of the Year-books down to the writer's own time, and is principally based on the work by Fitzherbert bearing the same title ... contains also some valuable original matter ... A selection from the 'Abridgement' comprising the more recent cases which Broke had added to Fitzherbert's collections, was published in 1578, under the title of 'Ascuns novell Cases de les Ans et Temps le Roy Henry VIII, Edward VI, et la Roygne Mary ...' " --Dict. nat. biog.

STC (2nd ed.) 3827

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R469, R470

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements 66

No received date; acq. no. 1375419 (April 17, 1981) w/no source info. A note on pastedown in same hand as below: "a first edition: value in 1937=[figure erased]" Gift of Prof. Warren?

No rec'd date, 19th c. stamp of Harvard Law School Library; gift of Joseph Story? Bound April 1886.

Received June 4, 1902, gift of Edmund James Drifton Coxe. Library-bound in one volume, Jan. 1933.

Text in Law French.

Ex libris Horace Binney (1780-1875) -- Horace Binney (1874-1956) -- Joseph Warren.

Ex libris Frederick Edward Farrer --Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Robert Bowyer --Edmund Cashin --Joseph Story.

Ex libris Richard Mynshull --Charles Fayrfax --Brinton Coxe -- Gift of Edmund James Drifton Coxe.

Half bound in worn 19th century roan and plain paper covered boards; boards detached, spine lacking. Note in pencil on front pastedown: "Given May 31, 1937 by Dr. Horace Binney H.U. 1897 to Joseph Warren H.U. 1897 in memory of their great grandfathers, who ... were both in H.U. 1797." Signature of Horace Binney ("Hor: Binney") at head of front flyleaf. An earlier(?) signature at head of title cropped.

Bound in 1 v., in badly worn 17th century calf, decorated in blind with fillets and floral roll, rebacked. Spine title: Brooke's Graunde abridgement. Signatures on front pastedown and flyleaf of Frederick Edward Farrer, barrister: F.E. Farrer, 14 Old Square, Linc. Inn, Aug. 1926.

Bound in 2 vols. At head of title page of pt. 1 (v.1), signature of Joseph Story. At foot, signature of Robert Bowyer, possibly that of Robert Bowyer, Keeper of the Records of the Tower; contemporary price and date notation, in another hand. Initials "T.B." written in panel above title; "R.S.B." on columns. Within the title page border, at the foot, Tottel's initials "R.T." have been changed to "R.B." Monogram ink stamp of an unidentified library on title pages of pts. 1 and 2. At colophon (pt. 2) is signature: "Edmundi Cashin" in a 19th century hand.

On title page: Charles Fayrfax (printed) with price notation: Pre 3. 8 1616 and signature Richard Mynshull, 1616. Armorial bookplates of Brinton Coxe. Leaves ruled throughout. With some 17th century annotations.