A brefe collection of the lawes of the forest
Subtitle: collected and gathered together, aswell out of the statutes & common lawes of this realme, as also out of sundrie auncient presidents and records, concerning matters of the forest. With an abridgement of all the principall cases, iudgements, & entres, contained in the assises of the forestes of Pickering and Lancaster
By: By Iohn Manwood of Lyncolnes Inne, studient in the lawes of this realme
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1820:20
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1592
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat; roa
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Forestry law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Game laws
Other titles: Lawes of the forest
Work titles: Treatise of the lawes of the forest
Notes: Caption title and running title: The lawes of the forest.

Suggested date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Signatures: [3 dots]⁴ A-2L⁴ [$3 (-[3 dots]3, -DI3) signed]

Errors in pagination: 74-75 and 78-79 printed 78-79 and 74-75; pages 102, 103, 169, 172, 173, 176, 196 and 200 printed 103, 102, 171, 170, 175, 174, 296 and 100; pages 233-272 printed 331-372 (with additonal errors within that sequence).

In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials.

Side notes.

"The charter of the Purlieus", leaves "344" -"372".

Printed for private circulation only; later published under title: A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forest. --Cf. STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.) 17290

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T412

Text in English, Latin and Law French.

Ex libris Thomas Forster -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 183)

Bound in 19th century green morocco with gilt inside dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Dunn's sale catalog identifies the binder as Ramage of London. At head of title: "Thomas Forster. 1869." Bookplate of George Dunn, who acquired it in March 1908; with his annotations on inner front flyeaf.