Tenir per seruice de chiualer
Subtitle: est a tenir per homage foi, alte ....
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1717:15; Early English books online
Publisher: Impressum per Richardum Pynson.
Published: 1496
Place of publication: London
Language: roa
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Writs; Real property
Other titles: Tenir per service de chivaler
Work titles: Old tenures
Notes: Printed without title page; title from first two lines of text, A2 recto.

Imprint from colophon; suggested date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: A⁸ [$4 signed]

On A1 verso, a woodcut (17.5 x 12.5 cm.) of the royal arms of England and France (Beale, J.H. Engl. law, plate no. 4)

In black letter type.

Floriated initial, A2 recto; guide letters only elsewhere.

Tract on various forms of tenure, by an unknown author, dating from the late 14th century. This is the 1st printed edition.

STC (2nd ed.) 23878

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T68

Duff 335

Goff T59

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 4015

Text in Law French.

Ex libris J.C. Woolley -- William Henry Dutton -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 108)

Armorial bookplate of William Henry Dutton. Bookplate of George Dunn, who acquired it in December 1903, with his notes on front flyleaves. At head of title page: "J C Woolley" in a late 18th or 19th century hand. With some contemporary marginal annotations, closely cropped.

Copy imperfect; 1st leaf is mounted.

According to Dunn's and another's notes, two other works were once bound following this title: 1) Pynson's [1506?] edition of Natura brevium (STC 18387), with Dunn's note "at Woolley [i.e. Dunn's library at Woolley Hall]. bought Feb. 1897. same copy" and 2) Pynson's [1502?] edition of Littleton's Tenures (STC 15722.5)

Bound in 19th century red morocco, with marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.