Iustice of peace
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: In edibus Thome Bertheleti, prope aquagium sitis sub intersigno Lucrecie Romane excus.
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng; lat; roa
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Criminal law
Other titles: Justice of peace; Iustice of peace
Work titles: Book for a justice of peace
Notes: Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 24)

Imprint from colophon; approximate date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.)

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of colophon.

Collation: A-I⁸ K⁴ [$5 signed; misprinting C5 as C9, H5 as G5]

Errors in foliation: leaves 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 46 and 73-75 printed 23, 25, 27, 27, 29, 29, 45 and 71-73.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman type.

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

Book for a justice of peace is sometimes attributed erroneously to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, whose Loffice et auctoryte des iustices de peas (STC 10968) and The newe boke of iustices of peas (STC 10969) were first printed in 1538. --Cf. Bertha H. Putnam, Early treatises on the practice of the justices of the peace.

With this were probably issued STC 7712.6, STC 15583.5 and STC 20898.5.

STC (2nd ed.) 14871.5

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T141

Received Aug. 15, 1924.

Ex libris Nicholas Hardinge -- Charles William Hamilton Sotheby.

Bound in 18th century calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and decorative roll parallel to hinges, all edges stained red; rebacked. Armorial bookplates of Nicholas Hardinge, Esq. and C.W.H. Sotheby. Early ownership inscription within title border has been rubbed out. Later signature of [Giles?] Hatch below border, partially legible. With a few 18th century marginal annotations.