Book #75207
Item #75207 La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur. Anthony Fitzherbert.
La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur...
La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur...
La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur...

La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur...

Early Tottel Edition of Fitzherbert's Abridgment, Jefferson Owned a Copy Fitzherbert, Anthony [1470-1538]. La Graunde Abridgement Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert, Dernierment Conferre Ouesque la Copye Escript et per ceo Correcte, Ouesque le Nombre del Sueil, Per Quel Facilement Poies Trover les Cases cy Abrydges en les Livers Dans, Novelment Annote: Iammais Devaunt Imprimes. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottell, 20 August 1577. [ii], 342 ff. [With] La Secounde Part du Graund Abridgment... [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottell, 20 August 1577. [ii], 265 ff. [And] Tabula. Cy Ensuit la Table pur Trover les Titles. [London: Imprinted...By Rycharde Tottel, 20 August 1577]. 66 ff. Small folio (10" x 7-1/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind rules to boards, raised bands and blind fillets to spine "Fitzherbert" in early hand to fore-edge of text block, existing endpapers retained. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped, lower corners somewhat worn, pastedowns loose, bookseller description for this title and related annotation dated 1903 to verso of front board, brief early annotations to recto of front free endpaper, later owner signature (G. Revett) to head of fol. 1 of Graunde Abridgment, small early doodle to fol. 66 of Tabula. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, worm hole at foot of text block (ending at fol. 314 of Graunde Abridgment), offsetting light soiling and moderate edge wear to endleaves, early (?) repair to title page of Graunde Abridgment at head, which is lightly soiled and lightly browned around upper margin. A handsome volume overall. $2,500. * Second Tottell edition. One of the most imposing volumes in the history of English law, it has abridgements of over 14,000 cases under 260 titles in alphabetical order. First printed around 1514, it was the first serious attempt to arrange the common law systematically and it was a model to such writers as Brooke and Rolle. According to Boersma, Fitzherbert accomplished "nothing less that to abridge all notes of significant cases at common law." Graham and Heckel refer to this work as the "book that 'made' the Common Law." A single.

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