Les Comentaries, ou les Reportes de Edmunde Plowden vn apprentice de le comen ley, de dyuers cases esteantes matters en ley, & de les argumentes fur yceux, en les temps des raygnes le Roye Edwarde le Size, le Roigne Mary, le Roy & Roigne Phillipp & Mary, & le Roigne Elizabeth
Publisher: In aedibus Richardi Tottelli.
Published: 1571
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat; eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench
Other titles: Reportes de Edmunde Plowden
Notes: Title within ornamental woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 122; Devices, no. 147), with Tottell's initials R T on base; without motto on sill.

Head of title: 1571.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Rychard Tottyl in the yeare of our Lorde. 1571. the 24. of October. Cum priuilegio.

Collation: [paragraph]⁶ A-5H⁴ 5I² [$2 signed; misprinting 2A1 as A1]

Errors in foliation: leaves 94, 186, 230, 302-303 and 306 printed 64, 176, 229, 303-304 and 307; leaf 377 not foliated.

In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

Law reports covering the years 2 Edward VI - 13 Elizabeth I (1548-1571).

Some copies have title page with variant date: 'octobris. 22'.

STC (2nd ed.) 20040

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R484

Beale, J.H. Engl. law (suppl.) R484a

Text in Law French and Latin; translation of the Latin prologue "yelded in English by E.M.", dated 14 Oct. 1571.

In this copy title page has the variant date "Octobris. 22."

With some contemporary marginal annotations. With this is bound part 2, STC 20046.7 (Beale R487, R486a)

In this copy title page has the date "Octobris. 24."

Remains of edge-mark: Plowden. On flyleaf in a contemporary hand: "This booke belonges to H ... [name undeciphered]". Another former owner's inscription at head of title, dated 1586. With extensive marginal annotations in contemporary and 17th century hands; 1 leaf of notes on final blank leaf, in a contemporary hand. On back pastedown, in two 17th century hands: "East Enborne" and "H. Ferrys"(?)

In this copy title page has the variant date "Octobris. 22."

Copy imperfect; 1st 6 leaves only, followed by the text of STC 20044.

Bound in 17th century sprinkled calf, boards decorated in blind with fillets, spine and edges of boards decorated in gilt, with spine label "Plowden's Reports", all edges sprinkled red.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets, corner ornaments and center medallion, with initials M.L., rebacked.