Lytylton tenures newly and moost truly correctyd [and] amendyd
Publisher: In ędibus Richardi Pynsoni regii impressoris.
Published: 1525
Place of publication: Londoni
Language: roa; lat; eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Below title, cut of the royal arms, with crown.

Pynson's note to readers on final leaf, in Latin.

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: A-Y⁸ [$5 signed]

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman 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.) 15726

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T9

Text in Law French.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 109)

Bound in late 19th or early 20th century vellum. With a few early marginal annotations, closely cropped. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in July 1886. Copy imperfect; lacking gatherings C and L.