Description: Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches) London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1607. sixth edition. 85 leaves (leaf 46 is misnumbered), text printed in black letter; nineteenth century marbled boards, half leather, raised bands, leather corners, title in gilt on red label on spine, author and date in gilt on brown label on spine, good condition (mild shelf wear not affecting contents) a few leaves with marginalia in a neat hand; ESTC S117811 (manuscript notations in pencil on front fly leaf: "S.T.C. 23218; COPIES REPORTED ONLY AT Oxford, Huntington, and HARVARD.") Dedicated to "... his singular friend Nicholas Bacon, the Kings Attorney of his Court of Wards, and Keeper of the Great Seale of England." Bacon was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon. "Collected out of the great Abridgement of Justice Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Lawes of England." (This book is) "Concerned with the property rights of the crown rather than with constitutional principles. Fulbeck justly said of Stanford's books in 1600 that they were of: 'force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in matter none hath gone beyond him, in method none hath overtaken him. And surely his method may be a law to the writers of the law which shall succeed him.'"
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Binding: Marbled boards, half leather, raised bands, leather corners
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Subject: Early English Law
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1607
Language: English
Special Attributes: Original
Region: Great Britain
Author: ("the right Worshipfull") Sir William Stanford, Knight
Topic: 1607 Property Rights of the English King
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Character Family: Early British Legal History
