The boke for a iustyce of peace neuer so well and dylygently set forthe
Publisher: In edibus Wilhelmi Middilton[i].
Published: 1544
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Criminal law
Other titles: Iustyce of peace
Work titles: Book for a justice of peace
Notes: Title within woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 22)

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

Collation: A-C⁸ D⁴ ²A-G⁸ [$5 (-D2) signed]

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman type.

Initials; tail pieces.

Side notes.

STC (2nd ed.) 14878.3

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T146

Ex libris Thomas Jolley -- Sir Thomas Phillipps (his sale, Sotheby Nov. 1973 or July 1974, no. 2659) -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Armorial bookplate of Thomas Jolley, Esq. F.S.A.

Sir Thomas Phillipps' shelfmark "XXXIII.l.33" in ink and his "MHL" pencilled on bookplate and front pastedown.

With a shelf mark (17th cent.?) at head of tittle page. Notes in a 16th century hand, written upside down, on ²G4 and ²G5.

Notes in a contemporary hand on front and back pastedowns and front endpaper.

With this are bound: STC 7720.4, STC 15585.5, STC 7734a, STC 20902.5 and STC 7698.

Bound in 20th century calf, decorated in blind with fillets. Binding error: ²A1 and ²A2 bound between C8 and D1.

Bound in worn early (17th century?) calf. Boards have been covered with leather from an earlier larger blind stamped calf binding. Narrow vellum guard of manuscript waste at back; rebacked.