La graunde abridgement
By: collecte & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, Chiualier ..
Contributors: Tottel, Richard, d. 1594; Great Britain.
Publisher: In aedibus Richardi Tottell ...
Published: 1576
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Secounde part du graund abridgement
Notes: Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, within Temple barre, at the signe of the hande and starre by Richarde Tottyl. the XII of October. Anno domini. 1576

First published: 1573

Signatures: (v.1) [paragraph symbol] in 4, A-2U in 8s, 2X in 8-1 (-2X8; blank?); (v.2) A-2S in 8s

Vol. 2 has title: ... La Secounde part du graund abridgement collect & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke .

Title within architectural borders, 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

Initials, ornamental, and with vignette; manuscript marginal notes

At head of title: 1576

"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

Includes index

STC 3828

Special Collection copy with ownership inscription: "John H James 18 Jan 1859" on front flyleaf