In this boke is conteined ye names of the baylyfs custose mayers and the ress of y[e] cyte of London from the tyme of Kynge Richard the Fyrst
Subtitle: [and] also the artycles of y[e] Chartour [and] lybartyes of the same cyte and of the chartour and lybartyes of England with other dyuers maters good and necessary for euery cytezen to understond and knowe. Whiche ben shewed in chapyters aftyr the fourme of this kalendyr folowynge
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 14.0-1 suppl; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 14.0-2 suppl; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Peter Treveris
Published: 1525
Place of publication: Southwark
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Forms (Law); Early works to 1800; Officials and employees; Registers; Commerce
Other titles: Nut-brown maid.
Work titles: Chronicle
Notes: Published without a title.

Catalog title from 1st line (A2 recto), preceding table of contents.

Also known as: Customs of London, Arnold's Chronicle, etc.

Imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: A⁴ (-A1) B⁸ C⁴ ²B ²C-E⁸ ²F-Q⁶ ²R⁸ ²S-V⁶ (-V6) [$3 (-B3) signed; misprinting ²L3 as ²L2]

Text in two columns.

In black letter type.

Initials.

"An extraordinary medley of information, consisting of a list of the Mayors and other officers; of charters, municipal regulations, assizes of bread, legal and mercantile forms and documents, family and other receipts, with some few historical matters; the whole being adapted to the particular and more immediate use of the citizen's of London." --J. Ames, Typographical Antiquities (1816), v.3.

Also contains the 2nd known edition of the ballad "The Nut-brown maid" (N6 recto-O2 verso)

First published [1503?] in Antwerp by A. van Burghen (STC 782)

STC (2nd ed.) 783

Kress Lib. S.45.

Most of text in English; some Latin.

Ex libris Thomas Corser -- Henry Huth -- Alfred Huth (his sale, Sotheby, November 1911, no. 276)

Armorial book label of Henry Huth ('Ex Musaeo Huthii'); pasted to front end paper, Kelly Law-Book Co.'s typed description, with note "the Corser and Huth copy".

Bound in late 19th or early 20th century crushed black morocco, decorated with inside gilt fillets and corner ornaments; all edges gilt.