[Rarebooks] For Sale: Fitrzherbert's "Graunde Abridgement" of the Common Law, 1577

[Norman Kane]

FITZHERBERT, ANTHONY.   LA GRAUNDE ABRIDGEMENT, COLLECTE PAR LE IUDGE 
TRESREUEREND MONSIEUR ANTHONY FITZHERBERT ... PER CEO  CORRECTE . . 
.  NOUELMENT  ANNOTE . . .  [London]: Richardi Tottelli, 
1577.   Somewhat worn later linen, labels gone, approx. 10 X 7-1/2 
inches, bookplate removed, folio 2 of part 1 repaired (no loss), last 
few folios lightly stained along top margins.  [1], 257, 259-342, 
[1], 66  folios, as noted by ESTC, collation in 8s.   2 elaborate 
woodcut title pages, 2 colophons.  In black letter law French.  Of 
great importance in the codifying of British Common Law (which we 
inherited), described by DNB as "emphatically the 'Grand 
Abridgement,' the first serious attempt to reduce the entire law to 
systematic shape."  A legal landmark, first published in 1514. ESTC 
locates 8 copies in the US: Columbia, Folger, Harvard, Huntington, U 
Kansas, U Minn., U Texas & 
Yale.  $3900.00 
  (Dealer Discount 10%)


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