Litletons tenures
Subtitle: Conferred with diuers true wrytten copies, and purged of sondry cases, hauing in some places more than y[e] autour wrote, and lesse in other some
Contributors: Tottel, Richard, -1594, printer; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Wildy & Sons (Firm)
Publisher: Apud Richardum Tottel.
Published: 1557
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: "Cum priuilegio." --title page.

Colophon: Imprinted at Lo[n]do[n] in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the sygne of the Hand [and] Starre, by Richard Tottill, the .xxviii. daie of October. Anno domini. 1557.

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

Collation: A-Y⁸ [$4 signed; Y8 blank]

Errors in foliation: leaves 106, 115, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132 and 134 printed 160, 114, 119, 121, 123, 125, 126, 128, 130 and 132.

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

Initials.

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.) 15738

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T23

Text in Law French.