Rare Books and Manuscripts KD194 1327+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Books
Notes:
Edited by John Rastell, whose name appears on title page verso.Title page has device of John Rastell (McKerrow, Devices, no. 37).Publication date conjectured by STC.Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ A-R⁶ S⁸.A1r has divisional title: Liber assisarum [et] placitorum corone.The last leaf is blank.S7v ends "fair[e] par leie [et]c." Variant: with an added explicit and four lines of Latin verse.Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 9599English short title catalogue, S121691Beale, J.H. Bibliography of early English law books, R48, R49BAC KD1941327+: Bound in contemporary leather, with contemporary binder's waste, printed and manuscript. Some manuscript marginalia near the front. Autograph: John Frank [or Hirsch?], his booke, 1664.A selection of law reports for 1-50 Edward III.
Subject Terms:
Law reports, digests, etc. -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Pleas of the crown -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800. | Frank, John -- Autograph.