A booke of presidents exactly written in manner of a register, newlie corrected, with additions of diuers necessary presidents, meete for all such, as desire to learne the fourme and manner howe to make all maner of euidences, and instruments, as in the table of thys booke more plainely appeareth
Publisher: By Iohn Charlewood, the assigne of Rychard Tottle [for John Walley].
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Conveyancing; Forms; Early works to 1800; Forms (Law)
Other titles: Right frutefull booke of exemplers or copies of sundry sortes of instrumentes or wrytyngs; Booke of sundry instrumentes.; Additions to the booke of instrument
Work titles: Book of precedents
Notes: Caption title: A right frutefull booke of exemplers or copies of sundry sortes of instrumentes or wrytyngs.

Most of text has running title: The booke of sundry instrumentes; leaves Cv-Clix have Additions to the booke of instruments.

Collation: A-Y⁸ [$4 (-A3, -R4, +OS5) signed; misprinting D2 as E2; Y8 blank]

Numerous errors in foliation: leaves iii, xix, xxxv, xli, liii and lxv-lxxii printed iiii, xx, xxx, xl, liiii and lxxv-lxxxii; leaves Cxix, Cxxii, Cxxiii, Cxxxiv, Cxxxvi and Cxxxvii-Cxxxviii printed Cxxii, Cxx, Cxxiii, Cxxxvi, Cxxxiii and Cxxxi-Cxxxii; leaves Cxlii and Cxliii printed Cxliiii and Cxlvii.

John Walley's ornament with his mark (McKerrow, Devices, no. 183) on title page and verso.

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

Title page, almanac, and calendar printed in red and black.

Initials.

The almanac on leaf [2] recto is for the years 1582-1610.

Originally published in 1543 with preface by Thomas Phayer, to whom this work has often been ascribed. The [1546?] edition and all subsequent editions omit Phayer's preface. --cf. STC (2nd ed.)

Walley was fined for publishing this, 28 Jan. 1583 --cf. Arber. Transcript of the registers of the Company of Stationers, v.2, 854.

STC (2nd ed.) 3341.7

Received ca. 1999 from P & P Books.

Text in English and Latin.

Ex libris William Hall.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets and center medallion stamp with cameo; vellum guards of manuscript waste. At head of title: "Willm. Hall de Medio [Templo]" in a 17th century hand; corner of upper leaf torn. With a few early annotations. Copy imperfect; final blank leaf torn out.