Les tenures de monsieur Littleton
Subtitle: ouesque certaine cases addes per auters de puisne temps: queux cases vous troueres signes ouesque cest signe [section symbol] al commencement & fine de chescun de eux, au fine que ne poies eux misprender pur les cases de mounsieur Littleton, pur quel inconuenience, ils fueront dernierment tolles de cest lieur: et cy vn foits plus admotes al request des gentle-homes students en le ley dengleterre. Reuieu & corrige en diuers lieux queux vous troueres signes ouesque ceux signes. * *
Publisher: In aedibus Thomae Wight, & Bonhami Norton.
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Londini
Language: roa; lat
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: "Cum priuilegio." --title page, preceding date.

STC (2nd ed.) v.2 incorrectly identifies Adam Islip as the printer --cf. v.3.

Collation: A-Q¹² [$5 signed]

Errors in foliation: leaf 58 not numbered; 157 printed 156.

Sections of chapters numbered separately.

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

Initials.

Includes index.

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.) 15753

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T38

Text in Law French.

On title page, signature of "R. Newdigate" and the initials R.N.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Brent Gratian-Maxfield -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

On front cover, gilt stamped: Ex libris Brent Maxfield 1956. Owner's inscription "B. Gratian-Maxfield" on front pastedown. On verso of title page, ink stamp "Brent Maxfield".

With a few marginal annotations, probably contemporary, partially lost due to close cropping.

Trimmed to 9.5 cm. and bound in 19th century dark brown morocco, covers decorated in blind with ornamental roll along edges and spine stamps.

Bound in late 18th or early 19th century mottled calf binding, decorated with fillets, ornamental roll, corner and spine stamps, spine with some gold tooling, blind inside dentelles.