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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 8vo. ff. (xxiv) 271 (i). Black letter, title within lovely woodcut border comprising compartment with mask and cornucopiae at head, female figures and vases at sides, half goats below (Mckerrow and Ferguson 82). Small hole to upper outer corner of border, contemp. ms notes (prob. acquisition note and price) at fore edge, on verso three lines in very neat secretary hand at foot, C18th autograph of Laurence Holker along outer margin, extensive contemp. annotations in two distinct hands covering last leaf (blank except for small imprint on verso); very light age browning else clean and good. In contemp. calf rebacked, renewed e.p.s., a.e.r., Holker's autograph 1746 on fly, 'Shadgrove' (Wadgrove?) also C18th, beneath. Fitzherbert (1470-1538) of Gray's Inn, justice of the Court of Common Please, was one of the most notable legal writers of the C16th, producing many of the most authoritative and enduring English law books for practitioners and students alike. The present work was more or less continuously in print between its first appearance in 1534 and 1794 and his Boke of Justice of the Peace enjoyed a similar life. Fitzherbert's knowledge of the law was profound, he had a strong logical faculty and the rarest of legal writers'gifts, the power of clear and lucid exposition. His explanations and directions were comprehensible even to those with the most basic knowledge of the law. The Nouvelle Natura Brevium is basically a manual of procedure in which are set out the forms of writ for all the different varieties of action. No less an authority than Coke called it "an exact work exquisitely penned". Getting the right writ, and getting the writ right were the basic essentials of Elizabethan litigation. If either were wrong the litigant was going nowhere - except back to the start to try again. A valuable volume for students and practitioners alike. "The Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work, excellently well penned and had been much admired by the noted men in the Common law" Ant. à Wood. STC. 10960. SN2616. French, Latin.…

First Edition. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583]. First Edition of Fitzherbert's Important JP Manual Edited by Crompton Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. Crompton, Richard (fl. 1573-1599), Editor. [West, William (1568-1594), Compiler of Index]. Loffice et Aucthoritie de Iustices de Peace, In Part Collect per le Iades Tresreverend Iudge, Mounsieur A. Fitzherbert, Et ore Enlarge per Richard Crompton, Un Apprentice de la Common Ley, & Public Lan du Grace. 1583. A Que est Annex, Loffice de Vicountes, Bailiffes, Escheatours, Constables, Coroners, &c. Collect per le Dit Mounsier Fitzherbert. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583]. First edition edited by Crompton. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5"; 19 cm x 13 cm). [xxvi], 206 ff. Lacking Leaf Z1 (fol. 177). Recent period-style polished calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind ornaments, and gilt title and publication date to spine. Fore-edge of textblock features an early inked "CF". Endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, inkstains to margins of a few leaves, offsetting and light edgewear to initial few and final leaves. Annotations in later hand to front endleaf. Illegible early owner signature to head of leaf following title page, which is lightly soiled. $1,100. * This important Tudor-era handbook marks the first edition of Anthony Fitzherbert's classic manual to be fundamentally overhauled, expanded, and reorganized by the legal scholar Richard Crompton. Originally published in 1538, Fitzherbert's foundational manual for local magistrates was a staple of English governance, but Crompton's late-sixteenth-century revisions introduced a significantly more systematic, accessible methodology and inserted a vast amount of updated statutory material. A key distinguishing bibliographical feature unique to this first Crompton edition is the extensive index compiled by William West, which was entirely omitted from subsequent reprintings. Although this text would eventually be overtaken in popularity by William Lambard's Eirenarcha, it remains a critical monument in the development of early modern English justice manuals and administrative local law. Global census records confirm the scarcity of this Tottell imprint, with the ESTC and OCLC locating only seven copies total across North American law libraries. OCLC locates 6 copies in North American law libraries (Columbia, Library of Congress, San Francisco Law. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583] (illustrator).…

London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1567. Fitzherbert's Foundation of the Common Law: A Notably Handsome 1567 Copy Annotated by the Lancashire Gentry [Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (1470-1538)]. [Rastell, William (1508?-1565), Table of Contents]. La Nouvelle Natura Breviu[m] du Iudge Tresreverende Monsieur Anthonie Fitzherbert, Denierement Renue & Corrige per Laucteur, Avecques un Table Perfecte des Choses Notables Contenus en Ycell, Novelment Compose per Guiliaulme Rastell, & Iammais per Cy Deuaunt Imprimee. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1567. (Colophon begins: Imprinted at London by Rycharde Tottill.) [xxxii], 271, [1] ff. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2"; 16.5 x 11.4 cm). Contemporary calf, blind frames with corner fleurons, large central arabesques and initials "IW" to boards, raised bands to spine, recent repairs to spine ends and corners, three of four early ties present. A few minor nicks and wormholes to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, a few chips to board edges, pastedowns loose, later armorial bookplate of the Fitzherbert-Brockholes family to verso of front board. Light toning to interior, underlining and brief annotations in an early hand to several leaves. $1,850. * First published in 1534, the Nouvelle Natura Brevium is a procedure manual written by a judge of the Common Pleas during the reign of Henry VIII. Winfield notes that "Coke put it among the books which he considered most necessary and of greatest authority and excellency"; Blackstone considered it an authority as well. Compiled from the earlier Natura Brevia and the Registrum Brevium, it includes several original observations on the form and function of writs. Rastell's revisions include the addition of a table. A popular work, it went through numerous editions in Law French and English, the final appearing in 1794. It remains significant to this day for its descriptions of writs that were becoming obsolete in the early sixteenth century. With few exceptions, the annotations in our copy are references to cases and statutes. The others are glosses or interpretive remarks. The Fitzherbert-Brockholes family has been part of the landed gentry of Lincolnshire since the fourteenth century. This book would have been useful to the several members of this family who served as justices of the peace and other lay offices held by. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1567 (illustrator).…