Cy ensuont ascuns nouel cases
Subtitle: collectes per le iades tresreuerend iudge, Mounsieur Iasques Dyer, chiefe iustice del common banke, ore primierment publies & imprimies.
Contributors: Farwell, R.; Dyer, James, gent.; Tottel, Richard, d. 1594; Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Publisher: in aedibus Richardi Tottelli
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Londini
Language: fre
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Law -- Great Britain
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Cy ensuont ascuns novel cases
Work titles: Ascuns novel cases
Notes: Posthumous publication of law reports written by the chief justice of the common pleas, Sir James Dyer.

"Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis."

Title within ornamental border with the initials "R" and "T" (i.e. Richard Tottell) at the base.

Editor's dedication signed by "R. Farewell" and "Ia. Dyer."

First edition.

"There are 2 editions.; A2 recto line 2 ends with a) 'attaynt' or b) 'attaint.' In edition 'a' S1 and U1 are sometimes cancels; e.g. S1 recto line 6 ends with 'droyt' or 'droit dis-' (cancel, C); edition 'b' has 'droyt dis-'":  Cf. STC.

"Imprinted at London in Fleetestreete, at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richarde Tottyll. An. Do. 1585. Cum priuilegio"--Colophon.

Signatures: [par]⁴ A-G⁸ H⁶ I-2Z⁸ 3A⁶ 3B⁴.

Some errors in foliation. Gathering H has foliation: 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 62; gathering I continues with 65. Text within H gathering is continuous and ends on H6 recto with imprint statement.

LC copy has "attaint" at the end of line 2 on the recto of leaf A2 and "droyt dis-" at the end of line 6 on the recto of leaf S1.

LC copy has manuscript note on title page: Ch: Fisher[?]:-: 2. Nouembris A[nn]o d[omin]i 1586 pricij. xiij⁹[?] iiii[superscipt "d"?]; manuscript marginal notes in the same and in later hands.

ESTC S121513

STC 7388

Beale, J.H.  Engl. law, R481