[Tenores novelli.]
Contributors: Pynson, Richard, -1530, printer; Horwood, Alfred, J. (Alfred John) 1821-1881, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner
Publisher: Richard Pynson
Published: 1496
Place of publication: London
Language: roa
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Other titles: Tenores Lytylton
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: On recto of first leaf, is a full-page woodcut of king with council (Hodnett, English woodcuts, fig. 138; no. 1507)

Title from colophon: Expliciunt Tenores Lytylton.

Pynson's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 6) on verso of final leaf.

Date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E-F⁸ G-I⁶ [$3 (+AB5, +AB6, +AB7, +B8) signed; misprinting B7 as A7; B8 as A8]

In black letter type.

Initials; some spaces with guide letters.

First published in 1482, Littleton's work was the earliest printed treatise on English law not printed in Latin. It incorporated some material from the Old tenures and "sums up the development of what was then the most important branch of the common law" --cf. Oxford companion to law.

STC 15722

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T6

Duff 276

Goff L235

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 4014

Text in Law French.