The first part of Symboleography
Subtitle: Which may be termed, the art, or description, of instruments and presidents
By: Collected by William West of the Inner Temple Esquire. Augmented with diuers new presidents not heretofore printed
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by [Miles Flesher for] the Assignes of John More Esq.
Published: 1632
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Legal instruments; Early works to 1800; Conveyancing; Equity pleading and procedure; Forms (Law)
Other titles: Symboleography
Work titles: Symbolaeographia
Notes: With Latin mottoes and typographical ornament below title.

Dedicatory letter, in Latin, to Sir Edmund Anderson, signed W. West.

The assigns of John More, Esq., were Miles Flesher, John Haviland, and Robert Young.

Collation: A-2Q⁸ [$4 signed; 2Q8 blank]

In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials; head and tail pieces, some of type ornaments.

Marginal section notations.

Includes index.

Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.

"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship." --Oxford DNB.

English Short Title Catalogue S119721

STC (2nd ed.) 25276

Received Dec. 11, 1893; bound Feb. 1938.

Text in English and Latin.

Signature: 'Lloyd Kenyon' on title page.

Edge-mark: West's Symbols. With this is bound: STC 25279.7, The second part of symboleography (1627)