The statutes prohemium Iohannis Rastell
Publisher: Enprynted in the Chepesyde at the sygne of the Meremayde next to Poulys gate ... Per me Johannem Rastell.
Published: 1527
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Statutes; Digests; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Abbreviamentum statutorum)
Notes: Caption title.

Imprint from colophon, in which Rastell's name follows date of imprint.

"Cum priuilegio. regali." --foot of colophon.

Collation: [pi]A⁸ [$1 signed] ; a-z⁸ [et]⁸ A-I⁸ [$4 (-ho3) signed; misprinting t3 as t4; I4 as E4]

Leaf [pi]A8 blank.

Errors in foliation: leaves lvi, cliiii and cxc printed vi, cxliiii and xc.

Rastell's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 37) on verso of final leaf.

In black letter type.

Abridgment of the statutes through the parliament of 1523, 15 Henry VIII; titles and references in alphabetical order.

"An enlarged edition of 9515.5; further enlarged in 9521 [and following items]." --STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.) 9518

Beale, J.H. Engl. law S44

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments 11

Translated from the French and Latin by John Rastell.

Ex libris William Herbert -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 228)

Bound in 19th century crushed brown morocco with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in April 1897, with his note "? Herbert's copy." Mansucript title page (19th century?) inserted: "An Abrigdment of the Statutes in English Enprinted by Iohn Rastell 1527." Undeciphered signature of former owner at head of leaf. At foot of leaf iiii (1st printed leaf in Library copy) William Herbert's reference to the page of this work's entry in the 1749 ed. of Ames' Typographical antiquities: "1527. ... Ames: p. 146". A few early marginal annotations, partially lost due to close cropping. Copy imperfect; lacking [pi]A⁸-a3 (1st 11 leaves).