The first part of the Institutes of the lawes of England: . or A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of a lawyer only, but of the law it selfe. Authore Edw: Coke Milite.
Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)
Category
Books
Date
1639
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038143.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[5],395,[30] leaves, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) . port.. (metal cut), fold. table . fol.. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 406, price 1s. Christie's, 21 June 2004, lot 614.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Robert Myddelton" [i.e. Robert Myddelton (1678-1733)]. manuscript account on slip used as bookmark loosely inserted between fols. 85-86: "at Wolloramton spent for mee and ye horses ...".. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding; double blind fillet border; blind dotted roll on board edges; blind fillets on spine. manuscript fore-edge title: "Co: Litt:". Manuscript waste at front and rear.
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) Sir Thomas Littleton (1422-1481) John Payne (1607-1647)