Institutions or principall groundes of the lawes and statutes of England, newlye and verye trulye corrected and amended, wyth many new and goodly additions, verye profitable for all sortes of people to knowe, lately augmented and imprinted
Publisher: By Richard Tottell.
Published: 1560
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Fleetstrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre
Language: eng
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property; Statutes
Work titles: Institutions in the lawes of Englande
Notes: With unsigned preface by Richard Taverner, who was probably the editor --cf. STC (2nd ed.)

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

Collation: A-H⁸ I⁴ [$2 (+I2) signed]

Errors in foliation: leaves x, xii, xiii, xxxi, xlv and xlviii printed ix, xiiii, xv, xxx, xl and xlvii; leaves lii, liii, liiii, lvi and lx printed liiii, liiii, lvi, lviii and xl; leaves v, xiiii and lxiii not numbered.

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

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

Includes index, signed W.S.

Copies may be different editions: the Library of Congress has in title: 'newly and very truly' (Beale T281); the British Library and Harvard Law School Library have: 'newlye and verye trulye' (Beale T281a) --cf. STC (2nd ed.)

First published as 'Institutions in the lawes of Englande', printed by John Bydell [1538?], STC (2nd ed.) 9290.

STC (2nd ed.) 9293a.7

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T281

Beale, J.H. Engl. law (suppl.) T281a

Received July 23, 1953, purchase from Grant; accession no. 786982.

Ex libris Societatis Antiquariorum Scotiae.

In this copy title has: 'newlye and verye trulye'.

Ink stamp "Societatis Antiquariorum Scotiae" of the library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on verso of title page; board trustees' withdrawal stamp on recto. With some notes, names, and Latin mottoes in an 18th century hand.