Lyttylton tenures newly imprynted
Contributors: Berthelet, Thomas, printer; Clulow, George, former owner; Frake, James, former owner
Publisher: In aedibus Thomę Bertheleti regii impressoris.
Published: 1536
Place of publication: Londini
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Title within an ornamental border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 34)

Imprint from colophon.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of colophon.

Suggested possible imprint date of [1536?] from STC (2nd ed.), v.3.

The date "M.D.XIX." was later hand stamped in a different ink on the title page of the Harvard Law School Library copy of this edition. However, Berthelet did not become the King's printer (as stated in the colophon) until 1530, and the title page border was not in use until 1535 --cf. STC (2nd ed.), v.3.

Collation: A-U⁸ X⁴ [$5 (-K4, -O5) signed; misprinting F5 as E5]

Errors in foliation: leaves 15, 21-22, 23-24, 133 and 135 printed 13, 23-24, 21-22, 135 and 137.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman type.

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

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.), v.3 15731.3

Text in Law French.