Abridgment des touts les cases reportez alarge per Monsieur Plowden
Subtitle: ouesq[ue] les exceptions al pleadings & leur responses, les resolutions des matters in ley, & touts auters principal matters surdants sur les arguments de mesmes
By: composee & digest p[er] T.A. [Thomas Ashe]
Publisher: In aedibus Ianae Yetsweirt.
Published: 1598
Place of publication: Londini
Language: roa; eng; lat
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Digests; Early works to 1800; Law reports, digests; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench
Work titles: Reports
Notes: Edited by Thomas Ashe, with a final note at end.

Suggested date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: A⁴ B-M⁸ N⁴ [$4 signed]

Illustrated with genealogical tables.

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

Floriated initial, A2 recto.

Side notes.

Abridgments of law reports covering the years 4 Edward VI - 21 Elizabeth I (1550-1579)

STC (2nd ed.) notes "1 [Harvard] copy has preface, cancelled in most copies."

STC (2nd ed.) 20037

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R491

Text in Law French; Ashe's preface to readers in English.

Ex libris Thomas Udall -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 212)

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

From the library of Richard Wolley, with his signature on t.p.

This copy includes preface.

Label of Wildy & Sons, Law Booksellers and Publishers, and Valuers on front inside pastedown. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in 1886. On title page is signature of Thomas Udall (fl. 1606-1609); other contemporary notations erased. With 17th century marginal annotations throughout; those in top margin partially lost due to close cropping.

This copy without preface.

Contemporary numerical notations on front pastedown. Red wax seal on front flyleaf; on verso: "Garstin's sale" in late 19th or 20th century hand. Inscription in pencil on inner flyleaf: "Walter H. [?] 15 Upper Berkeley Street Portman Square W.  d.d. J.F.S. 24. V. '95". At head of title page in a contemporary hand: 447. On verso of title, is a table of contents in a contemporary hand. With contemporary marginal annotations throughout.

Imperfect: leaves [A]2-4 wanting; hole burned in I3-5, slightly affecting text.

Bound in early 19th century marbled calf, with red leather spine label "Plowden's Abridgm. by T. Ashe" and gilt spine ornaments, all edges stained yellow. With marbled pastedowns and endpapers.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets and center medallion, rebacked.