Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the iustices of peace, in foure bookes
Subtitle: gathered 1579: first published 1581: and reuised, corrected, and enlarged, in the 31. yeere of the peaceable raigne of our most gracious Queene Elizabeth
By: by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne, gent. Whereunto is added the newly reformed commission of the peace, & an appendix of sundry precedents touching matters of the peace
Publisher: Printed by Ralph Newbery.
Published: 1591
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng; lat; ang
Number of pages: 627
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Of the office of the iustices of peace; Of the office of the justices of peace; Office of the iustices of peace; Office of the justices of peace
Notes: Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 146β; Devices, no. 185β), the shields in the lower corners blank.

"Cum priuilegio." --title page.

Colophon: Imprinted at London by Ralph Newbery. 1588.

Collation: [A]⁴ B-2Z⁸ [$4 (-Q2, -2S3, -D4, -2Z4) signed; 2Z8 blank]

In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials; head and tail pieces.

Printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 248) used several times as a tail piece.

Side notes.

Includes indexes.

First printed in 1581.

STC (2nd ed.) 15166

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T392

Most of text in English; some Latin. A few words in Old English.

Ex libris Ralph Rokeby -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 103)

On title page, William Lambard's inscription 'To the right worshipfull Ralfe Rokeby M[aste]r of St. Catherines and one of the M[aste]rs of Requestes to the Q[ueens] Ma[jes]te ... '. A few early marginal annotations and fists. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in 1885.

Bound in original contemporary limp vellum, covers decorated with gilt fillets, corner ornaments, center stamp of acorns and oak leaves, and owner's initials R R; gilt spine ornaments. Remains of manusript spine title. Edge-mark: Lamberd Iustice of peace.