Law Statutes. [The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large, which ...

Hammer

£250

Law Statutes. [The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large, which at anie time heeretofore have beene extent in print, since Magna Charta, untill the XXIX. yeere of the reigne of our most gratious sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth], volume I only (Henry III to Henry VIII), London: Printed [by H. Denham and H. Middleton?] for Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1587], Gothic black-letter printing, Mannerist woodcut headers, footers, vignettes, and historaited initials, lacking title-page and all before signature A, otherwise complete: 1043pp, [1] (colophon); A-[Ii]⁸, [Kk⁴], Ll-[Eeee]⁸, [Ffff⁶], occasional small wormhole, not affecting the text's readability, some ink manuscript marginalia and annotations in places viz. the law and its application to Ludlow, but very infrequent and brief, mid 18th century calf, blind-rolled borders, six-compartment spine, gilt-lettered piece within the second compartment, folio in 8s.

Provenance: 1) An. 1593 March 26. Reg. Eliza. 35. The guift (sic) of William Norton of London Stationer, to the Towne (sic) of Ludlow in the countie (sic) of Salop [...]; printed Elizabethan/Jacobean bequest label preserved on later pastedown; 2) Ludlow Corporation, 1752, their dated gilt-lettered and tooled morocco label to upper-cover.