The newe boke of iustices of peas
By: made by Anthony Fitzherbard iudge, lately translated out of Frenche into Englyshe
Publisher: Elizabeth Redman
Published: 1541
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: roa
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Early works to 1800; Sheriffs; Bailiffs; Constables; Coroners; Criminal law
Work titles: Office et auctoryte des iustyces de peas
Notes: Title within woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 22)

On verso of title page is cut of the royal arms, with crown, within a border of type ornaments and scroll pieces.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title.

Printer and actual date of imprint from colophon: Imprynted at London in Fletestrete, by me Elysabeth Pykernge late wyfe to Robert Redman dwellynge at the sygne of the George nexte to Saynt Dunstones churche. The yere of our lorde God. M.D.xli. the XXXI. day of Ianuary.

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

Collation: [Maltese cross]⁴ A-X⁸ Y⁴ [$5 (-C2) signed; misprinting [Maltese cross]2 as A3]

Errors in foliation: leaves l-lxiii printed xlix-lxii; leaf lxiiii printed xliii; leaves lxv-lxvii printed lxiiii-lxvi; lxviii-lxix printed xlvii-xlviii; lxx-Cxl printed xlix-Cxxxix; Cxlii-Clxxi printed Cxli-Clxix.

Cut of the royal arms, with crown, at end of table, leaf [4] verso.

Richard Pynson's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3) on verso of final leaf. McKerrow notes device probably passed to Robert Redman on Pynson's death in 1530.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman type.

Initials, some historiated.

First published in 1538 in a Law French edition (STC 10968) and an English edition (STC 10969), and considered to be the first printed treatises on English criminal law. "The adjective 'new' ... paid due respect to an earlier work, ... the anonymous late medieval Boke of Justices of Peas which was printed about 1506, but Fitzherbert's treatment was characteristically more thorough and detailed." --Oxford DNB.

STC (2nd ed.) 10970

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T336

Beale, J.H. Engl. law (suppl.) T336

Ex libris William Hawkins -- Peter Rougheadge -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Cancelled mid-19th century red ink stamp of the British Museum on verso of leaf [4] and below colophon, with date 9 Feb. 63.

At head of title in an early hand: 'This is William Hawkins boke'. At foot of title: 'Peter Rougheadge Grays Inn', also in an early hand.

On flyleaf facing title page: C. Wearg (?) in an early hand. Extensive marginal annotations in a late 16th or early 17th century hand, some closely cropped. With this are bound: STC 14875; STC 7716; STC 15584.7; STC 7730 and STC 20901.

Bound in 20th century brown morocco at British Museum, signed 'B.M. 1964'.

Bound in early 18th century mottled calf decorated in blind with fillets. Edge mark: Fitzherbert's Justice.