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Item #72664 De Termino Hillarii Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii Post Conquestum XXX. Year Book, Edward III.
De Termino Hillarii Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii Post Conquestum XXX.

De Termino Hillarii Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii Post Conquestum XXX.

Year 30, Hilary Term, of Edward III, Beale R23 [Year Book]. Edward III [Reigned 1312-1377]. De Termino Hillarii Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii Post Conquestum XXX. [Drop Head Title]. London: Imprinted...in Fleetestreet Within Temple Barre, At the Signe of the Hande and Starre, By Richard Tottell, 1585. 32 ff. Folio (10-3/4" x 7-1/4"). Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth, hand lettered title panel (reading: 30/ Edward III/ Tottell/ 1585/ R.23) to front board, endpapers renewed. A few minor nicks and stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, small later owner stamp (of Samuel Stern) to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior, occasional worming and faint dampstaining to margins, some leaves have underlining and brief case references in early hands. $1,000. * It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the Year Books. As a series of notes on debates and points of pleadings in Norman England they are of crucial primary sources for our knowledge of medieval common law. They also provide a richly detailed portrait of contemporary English life, customs and manners. The origin of the Year Books is unknown. Some scholars believe they were notes compiled by law students for study while others maintain they were made by lawyers for use in pleading. Though it is not known when the first manuscript volumes were compiled, extant examples date from the 1270s to 1535. Printed editions of the Year Books were first issued by William de Machlinia between 1481 and 1482. The present volume belongs to the so-called "Quarto Edition." Not a set or edition in the conventional sense, these volumes were issued separately with various dates and impressions between 1522 and 1619. English Short-Title Catalogue S101237. Beale, Bibliography of Early English Law Books R23.

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