Les tenures de monsieur Littleton
Subtitle: ouesque certaine cases addes per auters de puisne temps: queux cases vous troueres signes ouesque cest signe [Maltese cross] al commencement & fine de chescun de eux: au fine que ne poies eux misprender pur les cases de mousieur [sic] Littleton, pur quel inconueniens, ils fueront dernierment tolles de cest lieur: et cy vn foits pluis admotes al request des gentlehomes, studentes en le ley dengliterre
Contributors: West, William, active 1568-1594, editor; Tottel, Richard, -1594, printer; Dawbney, Clement, active 16th century-17th century, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Ess, Henry N. (Henry Newton), 1921-2000, former owner
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- no. 240:06
Publisher: Richard Tottel
Published: 1591
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Edited by William West, whose note to the reader appears on verso of the final leaf.

"Cum priuilegio Regia Maiestatis." --title page.

Identification of printer from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: A-R¹² [$5 (-KP4, -P5) signed; misprinting P2 as O2; P3 as P5]

Errors in foliation: leaves 104-170 printed 105-171.

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

Initials.

Includes index, signed W. West.

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 (2nd ed.) 15750

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T34

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T67 (West's index only)

Text in Law French; note to the reader in Latin.