Leteltun tenuris new correcte
Publisher: Impressum per me Richardu[m] Pynson.
Published: 1516
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Below title is a full-page woodcut with royal arms supported by a griffin and greyhound, with Tudor rose and two angels above (Beale, J.H. Engl. law, plate no. 8)

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: A⁸ B-H⁶ I⁸ [$3 signed]

On verso of final leaf, printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 9b) within a decorative border of the Virgin with saint in lower corner. By this date a large portion of the scroll at the bottom of the device had broken off.

In black letter type.

Initials, some historiated.

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.) 15724

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T8

Received March 22, 1924.

Text in Law French.

Copy imperfect; lacking title page and final leaf.

Trimmed to 23 cm. Bound in 19th century mottled calf decorated with gilt fillets, corner and spine ornaments and gilt inside dentelles; marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers; all edges gilt; signed Riviere & Son. With 16th century marginal annotations. Copy imperfect; lacking title page. Upper portion of some leaves torn, with some loss of text.