Lytylton tenures newly and most truly corrected [and] amended
Publisher: In edibus Richardi Pynsonis.
Published: 1528
Place of publication: Lo[n]doni
Language: roa; eng; lat
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Other titles: Tenores Litiltoni
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Below title, cut of the royal arms, with crown.

Imprint from colophon, which begins: Expliciu[n]t Tenores Litiltoni ....

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of colophon.

Collation: A-V⁸ X⁶ [$5 signed; misprinting I3 as I5; I5 as I3]

Printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3) on verso of final leaf.

In black letter type.

Initials.

Side notes.

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.) 15728

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T10

Text in Law French.

Ex libris Charles Hurt -- Alfred Horwood -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 112)

Bound in 20th century calf, with early rubricated manuscript waste from previous binding pasted on back pastedown. Book plate of George Dunn on ms. waste. On front flyleaves, ownership inscriptions of Charles Hurt jun., Wirksworth, dated March 9, 1821, and "Alfred J. Horwood, Temple". With contemporary marginal annotations and headings; some edges lost due to close cropping. Leaves paginated in a later hand. Copy imperfect; lacking gathering S. At the time of Dunn's sale, following this was bound STC 18390, Natura brevium (London : Pynson, 1528) in "old stamped vellum" --cf. Dunn sale catalog.