Les tenures du Monsieur Littelton
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Publisher: Richard Tottel
Published: 1567
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: "Cum priuilegio." --foot of title.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the sygne of the Hand and Starre, by Rychard Tottil, y[e] .xvii. of Maye. Anno domini. 1567.

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

Collation: A-X⁸ Y⁴ [$4 (-BDEKOQ3, -B4) signed; misprinting V4 as V3; Y4 blank]

Errors in foliation: leaves 18, 38, 53, and 55-169 printed 8, 28, 54 and 56-170.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic 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.) 15739

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T24

Beale, J.H. Engl. law (suppl.) T24a

Text in Law French.

Ex libris George Caulfeild -- Arthur Hugh Smith Barry.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Early 19th century label of the Marbury Hall Library, printed on red paper, with shelf mark. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry of Marbury Hall, with shelf mark in pencil, pasted over lower portion of the earlier label. On title page "Sum Georgii Calphehilli. 1569. Iunii 26" and several Latin mottos in the same hand; probably George Calfield [i.e. Caulfeild], admitted to Gray's Inn in 1568. Strip of paper pasted along the length of B4 verso with "Littletons Tenures. 188." in a late 18th or 19th century hand, forming an edge label. On Y3 recto: "Sherington de Wardlye[?]" in a 17th century hand. With a few marginal annotations; faded note on Y3 verso in a 16th century hand.

Edge mark (17th cent.?): Littleton & Perkins. On front flyleaf, monogram in an early hand. With a few marginal annotations in a 16th century hand. With this is bound STC 19635, A profitable booke of Maister Iohn Perkins (Tottel, 1567)

Bound in worn contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and spine ornaments; gilt corner ornaments; back pastedown of manuscript waste.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets, gilt spine rules.