Les tenures du monsieur Littleton
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Publisher: Richardum Tottel
Published: 1583
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat; eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Real property; Early works to 1800; Land tenure; Law and legislation
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Edited by William West, whose note to the reader appears on final leaf.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre by Rychard Tottill. 1583.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title page and colophon.

Collation: A-X⁸ Y⁴ ²A-²C⁸ [$4 (+Y3, -²A3) signed]

Errors in foliation: leaves 68, 70 and 104-170 printed 70, 68 and 105-171.

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

Initials.

Includes index, signed W. West.

Some copies [Bodleian and Wadham College libraries, Oxford] printed on "quarto paper" --STC (2nd ed.)

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.

ESTC S108638

STC (2nd ed.) 15746

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T31

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T63 (West's index only)

Gift of the Roscoe Pound Foundation, 1992.

Received March 24, 1897; bound April 1897.

Text in Law French; note to the reader in Latin.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Theophilus Bevan -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 122)

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 120) -- Roscoe Pound -- Gift of the Roscoe Pound Foundation.

Bound in late 18th century calf decorated with gilt fillets, floral spine ornaments and gilt spine title: "Tenure de Littlet" and gilt inside dentelles; all edges stained red. On front endpaper: "No. 159 ab/u" in an 18th century hand.

Bound in worn 17th (?) century calf, decorated in blind with fillets, all edges stained red. On title page, signature of "Theo. Bevan", possibly Theophilus Bevan, admitted to Gray's Inn July 1663; with price. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in January 1887.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and center medallion stamp and the initials A D stamped on either side of the medallion. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in April 1885. On front flyleaf: "Roscoe Pound 20 November, 1913. Bought at sale of duplicates by Harvard Law Library."

A few early marginal annotations.