[Tenores novelli.]
Publisher: Richard Pynson
Published: 1502
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: On recto of first leaf, is a full-page woodcut of king with council (Hodnett, English woodcuts, fig. 138; no. 1507)

Colophon: Tenorum Lytylton lector iam cernito finem.

On verso of final leaf, Pynson's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 9b) within a decorative border of the Virgin with saint in lower corner.

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

Collation: A⁸ B-H⁶ I⁸ [$3 signed]

Errors in foliation: leaves xvii, xxix, xxxii, xxxv and xlix printed xvi, xxviii, xliiii, xxxvii and xlv.

In black letter type.

Spaces with guide letters for initials.

Formerly STC 15725.

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.) 15722.5

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T7

Received June 24, 1926; Rosenbach Co.

Text in Law French.

Ex libris Ferdinando Helie.

Bound in 19th century calf, covers and spine decorated in blind; gilt title: Lyttlton Tenures; calf doublures decorated in blind; all edges sprinkled red. Remains of edge-mark. An interleaved copy. The 1st several leaves with extensive notes in a 17th century hand, mostly in English; at least one reference to the reign of Charles I. On verso of final leaf, signature of Ferdinando Helie in a 17th century hand, and below it in an earlier17th century hand, 'Fardinando: Poultton of Greye'. With some early 16th century marginal annotations, edges lost due to close cropping. Bottom portion of final leaf cut away.