Lyttylton Tenures newly reuised and truly corrected with a table (after the alphabete to fynde out brefely the cases desyred in the same) therto added uery necessary to the reders
Contributors: Staunford, William, Sir, 1509-1558, editor?; Hill, Nicholas, -1557, printer; Smith, Henry, -1550, bookseller; Herbert, William, 1718-1795, former owner
Publisher: Nicholas Hill for Henry Smith
Published: 1545
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; roa
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Other titles: Lyttylton Tenures newly revised and truly corrected; Lytylton tenures neulye imprynted
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: A later issue of STC 15732.7, preceded by an alphabetical table with title page and preface to the table.

"Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum per septennium." --foot of title page.

Preface to the table signed by editor 'W.S.' [William Staunford?] --cf. STC (2nd ed.) 15733.

Table followed by a second title page dated 1545 and text, both as in STC 15732.7.

The second title ('Lytylton tenures neulye imprynted.') within an ornamental woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 53)

Colophon: Prynted at London by Henry Smyth dwellynge wythout Temple Barre at the signe of the Trinitie.

"Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." --foot of colophon.

Collation: [pi]⁸ [Maltese cross]⁸ [$1 signed; [Malteses cross]8 blank]; A-T⁸ [$5 (-A2 -ADI4 -BLN5) signed; misprinting T4 as S4]

Numerous errors in foliation: leaves 16, 18, 19, 24, 28, 29 printed 15, 10, 15, 14, 20,19; leaves 31, 39, 44, 49, 51, 55, 102 printed 23, 23, 36, 41, 43, 47, 101; leaves 105-136 printed 104-135 (with additional foliation errors within that sequence).

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic type.

Initials.

Side notes.

Index.

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.

This issue not in STC (2nd ed.)

Ames, Joseph. Typographical Antiquities. (1785-1790 ed.) v.2, p. 706

Ames, Joseph. Typographical Antiquities. (1810-1819 ed.) v.4, no. 2188

Text in Law French.