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Sir Thomas Littleton | Lyttilton Tenures truely translated into Englyshe, 1538, the first textbook on English property law

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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December 11, 02:39 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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13,000 GBP

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Sir Thomas Littleton

Lyttilton Tenures truely translated into Englysh. An. M.D.XXXVIII. London: Thomas Berthelet, [1538]


8vo (144 x 92 mm), gothic type, title-page within woodcut border dated 1534 [McKerrow & Ferguson 30], nineteenth-century morocco, tooled in blind, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, lacking terminal blank, joints starting


First dated octavo edition of THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON ENGLISH PROPERTY LAW.


PROVENANCE:

Scratched out early modern ownership inscription to verso of final leaf; Romilly: bookplate; Edmund Robert Bartley Dennis: bookplate


LITERATURE:

USTC 503028 (listing 5 institutional copies); ESTC S108668; STC 15761

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