The abridgement of the booke of assises
By: lately perused over, and corrected, [and] nowe newely imprinted by Richard Tottill the last day of September. Anno do. 1555
Publisher: By Richard Tottell.
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Flitestrete [sic] within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre
Language: roa; eng; lat
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Year books (Edward III : 1327-1377)
Notes: Title within woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 34)

Imprint from colophon; suggested approximate date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title.

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

Collation: A-X⁸ [$4 (+B5) signed]

Error in foliation: leaf 79 printed 76.

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

Floriated initial, leaf 1.

Includes index.

Another edition of STC 9603, described in STC (2nd ed.) as "an alphabetical abridgement of selected cases ranging in time from Edward I through Edward IV, in part derived from the MS. of 9599 [yearbooks of Edward III] and from 23238 [Statham's abridgement of cases to the end of Henry VI], and sometimes attributed to Sir William Callow."

STC (2nd ed.) notes "this is later than [STC] 9605 [printed 30 Sept. 1555]."

STC (2nd ed.) 9604

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R52

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements 48

Text in Law French.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, Feb. 1913, no. 6)

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in early 18th century calf, decorated in blind with fillets and single decorative roll along spine edges, rebacked. With red morocco spine label: Book of Assize 1555. Bookplate of George Dunn. Copy imperfect: lacking leaves 138 & 139 (S3 & S4)

Bound in worn contemporary calf, decorated in blind with fillets and center shield stamp; with vellum guards of manuscript waste. With contemporary edge-marks: Lib: assisar[um] (top edge) and Ab.A. (side edge). Across inner front flyleaves, a note in a contemporary hand, with a price notation. 19th cent. shelfmark(?) E11 on front pastedown and flyleaf.