Les Commentaries, ou les Reportes de Edmund Plowden vn apprentice de le common ley, de diuers cases esteantes matters en ley, & de les argumentes sur yceux, en les temps des Raignes le Roye Ed. le size, le Roigne Mary, le Roy & Roigne Ph. & Mary, & le Roigne Elizabeth
Subtitle: Ouesque vn table perfect des choses notables contenus en ycel, compose per William Fletewood recorder de Londres. Auxy vous aues en cest impression plusors bone notes en le margent per tout le lieur, en queux les cases sont referre al Abridgement de Brooke, en les lieurs del termes, & as auters lieurs del common ley
Publisher: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Companie of Stationers.
Published: 1613
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat; eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Reportes de Edmund Plowden
Notes: Title within woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 147; Devices, no. 168) with the mermaid cut away; "Cum priuilegio." in sill.

Identification of Adam Islip as printer from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: [par.]⁴ [pi]B-[pi]C⁴ [pi]D⁶ A-5G⁴ 5H⁶ [$2 signed; 5H6 blank; misprinting 5D2 as 5D1]

Error in foliation: leaf 40 not numbered.

In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials.

Side notes.

Includes index.

Law reports covering the years 2 Edward VI - 13 Elizabeth I (1548-1571)

Published separately from, but often bound with "La second part de les Reports, ou, Commentaries ... per Monsieur Edmund Plowden" (STC 20047.5), 1610.

STC (2nd ed.) 20046

Received Feb. 7, 1923.

Text in Law French and Latin; translation of the Latin prologue "yelded in English by E.M.", dated 20 Oct. 1578.

Ex libris Streatfeild family -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets; all edges stained red; hinges repaired. On front pastedown, mid-18th century armorial bookplate of a member of the Streatfeild family.

Bound in contemporary reverse calf, decorated in blind with fillets and center medallion stamp; initials T A on either side of stamps; all edges stained red; rebacked. A few contemporary marginal annotations. With this is bound STC 20047.5, the 1610 ed. of the 2nd part.