A booke of presidents exactly written in manner of a register
Subtitle: newelye corrected, with additions of diuers necessarie presidents, meete for all such as desire to learne the fourme [et] manner how to make all manner of euidences, as in the table of this booke more plainly appeareth
Publisher: In aedibus Richardi Tottelli.
Published: 1586
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Conveyancing; Forms; Early works to 1800; Forms (Law)
Work titles: Book of precedents
Notes: On title page, date precedes Tottel's name.

"Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." --foot of colophon.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the hand and starre, by Rychard Tottel. An. 1584.

Collation: [par.]⁸ [pi]A⁴ ²A-Z⁸ [$4 signed; [pi]A4 blank]

Errors in foliation: leaves 8, 107, 110, 118, 133 and 136 printed 16, 137, 101, 128, 126 and 153.

English text in black letter type, Latin text in Roman type; some italic type.

Includes index.

The almanac on leaf [8] verso is for the years 1572-1601.

Another edition of Tottel's 1584 rearranged edition.

Originally published in 1543 with a preface by Thomas Phayer, to whom this work has often been ascribed. The [1546?] edition and all subsequent editions omit Phayer's preface --cf. STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.) 3344

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T446

Text in English and Latin.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 223)

Ex libris Wiliam Bayntun --Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bookplate of George Dunn, who acquired it in July 1886. Contemporary notes on verso of title page. Closely trimmed with some loss of late 17th/early 18th century marginal annotations.

Bound in 18th century calf, extensively rebacked; original spine and back cover only remaining. Gilt armorial binding of William Bayntun (back cover), spine and edges decorated in gilt. At foot of title page: "W. Bayntun Grays Inn ... 1766". Faint (illegible) ink stamp in upper right corner of title page.

Bound in modern half calf and textured book cloth, gilt spine title.