Litletons tenures
Contributors: Tottel, Richard, -1594, printer; Greening, Richard J. (Richard James), former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Ess, Henry N. (Henry Newton), 1921-2000, former owner; Bridgewater House Library
Publisher: Apud Richardum Tottel.
Published: 1557
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: "Cum priuilegio." --title page.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the sygne of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottil, y[e]. xxviii. daie of October. Anno domini. 1557.

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

Collation: A-Y⁸ [$4 signed; Y8 blank]

Error in foliation: leaf 41 numbered 40.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic type.

Initials.

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.) 15738.3

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T22

Text in Law French.