Un Perfect Table a Touts les Severall Livers del Reportes de Sir...
First Edition of a Notable Early Digest of Coke's Reports Ashe, Thomas [c 1556-1618]. [Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)]. Un Perfect Table a Touts les Severall Livers del Reportes de Sir Edward Coke Chivalier, Attorney General le Iades Roigne Elizabeth, & le Roy que Ore Est: Per quel Facilment Troveres Touts les Matters & Choses Contenus in Yceux. Ouesque un Catalogue de Touts les cases in Larguments de les Principall Cases la Remembre, & In le Temps le Raigne le Dit Roigne Elizabeth, & In Auter Temps Resolue & Adiudges, mes Iammes Devant Imprimee. Et en la Fine del Dit Table Auxy Annex un Brief & Alphabeticall Collection de Touts les Ornative & Memorable Texts del Latine, Comprise in les Dits Severall Livers. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1606. [xvi], 148 ff. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary speckled calf, blind rules and central gilt monogram stamp ("RB") to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and handwritten shelf label to spine, edges rouged. Light rubbing and a few minor spots to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, front hinge cracking, front free endpaper removed, faint offsetting and tears to rear free endpaper. Woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Light toning to interior, occasional very faint dampstaining to margins (and upper corner of last several leaves), light foxing to a few leaves. An appealing copy. $850. * First edition. Main text in Law French, prefaces in Latin and English. This is an important early digest of the Reports of Edward Coke then published (Parts 1-5, first published 1600-1605). A popular and durable work, it went through two more editions (as Un General Table..., updated to cover parts 6-11) in Law French (in 1618 and 1631) and three editions in English (in 1652, 1653 and 1672). It was also reprinted following the 1664 and 1680 editions of Coke's Reports. English Short-Title Catalogue S108463.
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