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Author: Coke, Edward
Title: The first part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A commentarie vpon Littleton, not the name of a lawyer onely, but of the law it selfe
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed by [Miles Flesher, John Haviland, and Robert Young,] the assignes of Iohn More Esquire; and are to be sold by Richard More
Date Published: 1629
Description:

[6], 395, [1]; [34] leaves. With 2 copper-engraved portrait plates. (sm. folio) 28.5x18 cm. (11¼x6¾"), period calf. Second Edition.

A commentary on the "Tenures" of Sir Thomas Littleton, reprinting the latter text in the original Law French and in English translation. The second part, "A table to the first part of the Institutes of the lawes of England" has separate dated title page on 5G4r; text begins a separate register.  The first edition was published the preceding year; this second edition is "corrected." The Second Part was not published untilSo 1642, additional Parts in the succeeding decades. The first leaf is a blank preceding the frontispiece. This copy lacking the folding chart. STC 15785.

Some rubbing and wear to covers, a few gouges to leather, but sound; very good or better internally, just minor soiling.