LITTLETON (THOMAS) Les tenures... quesque certeine cases addes auters de puisne temps, LARGE PAPER COPY INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT, Company of Stationers, 1608
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LITTLETON (THOMAS)
Les tenures... quesque certeine cases addes auters de puisne temps, LARGE PAPER COPY INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT, Company of Stationers, 1608
Sold for £2,250 (US$ 3,052) inc. premium

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LITTLETON (THOMAS)
Les tenures... quesque certeine cases addes auters de puisne temps, LARGE PAPER COPY INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT, early vellum, paste-downs cut from a ?sixteenth century Antiphonal leaf on vellum (one with large initial with face), later morocco gilt lettering label (chipped) [STC 15755], 8vo (175 x 114mm.), Company of Stationers, 1608

Footnotes

  • Early seventeenth century interleaved copy. ODNB exemplifies the enduring importance of the work, quoting William Fulbecke as saying in 1600 "Littleton is not now the name of a lawyer, but of the law itself", and that into the nineteenth century "Littleton was one of the first books placed in the hands of a law student. Copies were often interleaved for heavy annotation".

    Provenance: William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, bookplate and ink shelf mark on front free endpaper; purchased from Traylen, 4 December 1957.
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