The new boke of iustices of peace
By: made by Anthonie Fitzherbard iudge, lately translated out of Fre[n]che into Englishe and newlye corrected
Contributors: Tottel, Richard, -1594, printer; Rand, Benjamin, 1785-1852, former owner; Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883, former owner; Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Ess, Henry N. (Henry Newton), 1921-2000, former owner
Publisher: Richard Tottel
Published: 1560
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: roa
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Early works to 1800; Sheriffs; Bailiffs; Constables; Coroners; Criminal law
Work titles: Office et auctoryte des iustyces de peas
Notes: "Cum priuilegio as imprimendum solum." --foot of title.

Actual date of imprint from colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richarde Tottyll, the vii. day of February the yeare of our lorde. 1560.

Collation: A-Y⁸ [$4 signed]

Errors in foliation: leaves 97 and 103 printed 82 and 88.

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

Initials, some historiated.

First published in 1538 in a Law French edition (STC 10968) and an English edition (STC 10969), and considered to be the first printed treatises on English criminal law. "The adjective 'new' ... paid due respect to an earlier work, ... the anonymous late medieval Boke of Justices of Peas which was printed about 1506, but Fitzherbert's treatment was characteristically more thorough and detailed." --Oxford DNB.

STC (2nd ed.) 10976

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T342