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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. 2010 reproduction. French language. The page block is marked. The pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM. Used.

First Edition. London, 1650. First edition. The First Abridgment of Plowden in English Plowden, Edmund [1518-1585]. H[icks], F[abian], Editor and Translator. [Walter, Sir John [1566-1630], Digestor]. An Exact Abridgment in English, Of the Commentaries, Or Reports of the Learned and Famous Lawyer, Edmond Plowden, An Apprentice of the Common Law. Concerning Diverse Cases and Matters in Law, And the Arguments Thereupon; In the Times of the Reignes of King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, King Philip, And Queen Mary, And Queen Elizabeth, With the Exceptions to the Pleadings, And Answers Thereunto; The Resolutions of the Matters in Law, And All Other Principall Matters Arising Upon the Same. By F.H. of the Inner Temple London, Esq. London: Printed by R. White, And T. Roycroft, For Matthew Walbanke, And Henry Twyford, And Are to be Sold at Their Shops in Grais-Inn Gate in Holborn, And in Vine Court in the Middle Temple, 1650. [viii], 232, 62 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary sheep with later calf rebacking, lettering piece, raised bands, gilt and blind fillets and gilt publication date to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, "Abr:/ Plo:" in early hand to fore-edge of text block, endpapers renewed. A few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and moderately worn, front hinge cracked. Moderate toning to interior, brief early annotations to a few leaves, section of fore-edge lacking from leaf K8 (pp. 143-144) with no loss to text, offsetting and light edgewear to final leaf and title page, which has a faint stain and two illegible early owner signatures, one struck through. $1,500. * First edition, one of two issues from 1650. Thomas Ashe's Abridgment des Touts les Cases Reportes a Large per Plowden (c. 1597) was the first abridgment of Plowden. An Exact Abridgment was the first in English. A second edition was published in 1659. First published in 1571 and covering the period of 1550-1580, Plowden's Reports marks the transition away from the cumulative method of the Year Books to one based on exposition and commentary. In most respects it is a precursor of the modern law reporter. Counting both issues, OCLC locates 12 copies of the first edition in North America, 7 in law libraries (Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, San Francisco Law Library, University of Pennsylvania, Yale). English Sh. London, 1650. First edition (illustrator). …