The first part of the institutes of the lawes of England
Subtitle: or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it selfe : haec ego grandaeuus posui tibi candide lector
By: authore Edw. Coke, milite.
Contributors: Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481.
Edition: The fourth edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher], I[ohn] H[aviland], and R[obert] Y[oung] assignes of I[ohn] More, Esquire
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- England and Wales; Real property -- England and Wales
Other titles: First part of the institvtes of the lawes of England; Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it selfe
Work titles: First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Notes: A reprint of Littleton's Tenures, with a translation in English from Anglo-Norman (Law French), and commentary.  Printed in parallel columns.
Title within ornamental border.
Printer's names from ESTC.
Includes index: "A table to the first part of the institutes of the lawes of England."
Signatures: A-4B⁶ 4C⁶(-4C6), leaf A1 is port.; last leaf blank.
LC copy inscribed by "H.W. Parker" and "A.S. Wait, July 19, 1889."
LC copy imperfect: final leaf mutilated, some text wanting.
LC copy from Thomas Jefferson was "marked as missing in the working copy of the 1815 catalogue and is included in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date. The entry was dropped from the later catalogues."  Cf. Sowerby
ESTC S896
STC (2nd ed.) 15787
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1781