The grand abridgment of the law continued, or, A collection of the principal cases and points of the common-law of England
Subtitle: contained in all the reports extant, from the first of Elizabeth, to this present time, by way of common-place : a work very usefull for all students and practitioners in the law : with two tables, the one containing the names of the cases, the other of the matter of every of the said cases : published in the twelfth year of the reign of Our Soveraign [sic] Lord Charls [sic] the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland &c
By: by William Hughes of Grayes-Inne, Esquire
Contributors: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673-1722, inscriber; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, are are to sold at their shops ...
Published: 1660
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Common law; Early works to 1800; Law
Other titles: Grand abridgment of the law continued; Collection of the principal cases and points of the common-law of England
Notes: Vol. 1: [48], 344, 353-758, [56] p. (p. [1-2] at end blank); v. 2: [54], 759-1268, 1277-1418, 1423-1576, [88] p. (p. [1-2] at end blank); v. 3: [36], 1577-2132, [102], 2133-2418, [64] p. (p. [1-2] in front, p. [65-66], 3rd group of paging, p. [63-64] at end blank).

The second and third volumes and the appendix all have separate title pages, and the pagination is continuous. The title pages to volumes 2 and 3 have the imprint date of 1662; the title page to the appendix has the imprint date 1663.

Errata: v. 1, p. [47] in front.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Has inscriptions: R. Beverley.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1787

English Short Title Catalogue, entry R12818

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), entry H3324

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T, 5T, 9I [i.e. 6I], 11I, and 11T. Vol. 3 has the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.