The interpreter: or Booke containing the signification of words
Subtitle: Wherein is set foorth the true meaning of all, or the most part of such words and termes, as are mentioned in the law writers, or statutes of this victorious and renowned kingdome, requiring any exposition or interpretation. A worke not onely profitable, but necessary for such as desire throughly to be instructed in the knowledge of our lawes, statutes, or other antiquities
By: Collected by John Cowell, doctor, somtime the Kings Majesties professour of the civill law in the Universitie of Cambridge
Publisher: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Sheares.
Published: 1637
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Law; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Booke containing the signification of words
Notes: Title within a ruled border.

In this edition, title line 6 is in Roman type; A1 recto, column 1, line 6 ends: 'pro-'.

Identification of printer from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: [fleur de lis]⁴ A-4C⁴ [$3 signed; 2I1 misprinted 2F1]

Text within ruled borders, in double columns.

Initials; head and tail pieces.

In predominantly Roman type; some italic type.

The 1607 ed. (STC 5900) was "suppressed by proclamation [March 1610] because of its absolutist interpretation of some of the terms, e.g. Prerogative and Subsidy." --cf. STC (2nd ed.)

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments 128

STC (2nd ed.) 5901