Les termes de la ley: . or, certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes of this realme expounded. Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented.
John Rastell (d.1536)
Category
Books
Date
1624
Materials
Measurements
167 x 112 x 43 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3112120
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink with ms notes on the endleaves Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: sewn single fold of plain, white handmade laid paper within a parchment guard (plain at left and ms doc at right, no pastedown Structure: English Manufactured by De la Rue & Co. London Edges: plain-cut, densely sprinkled with red pigment, polished Spine Lining: slight round, quadrant joints, no linings End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 in blue and white plain thread over rolled paper core, cut at the joints. Bookmark: None Boards: 3 mm paper pulp boards, full internal bevel on the spine edge, all slips laced, 2-hole ,perpendicular Covering: full brown tanned calf Tooling Spine: blind-tooled 2-line tool at heada nd tail of each panel with an extra line in panel 5. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled t/t/t border frame; gold-tooled 1-line tool on board edges Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[7], 311 leaves . 8vo.. Former shelfmark: Tt.3.4. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. - Ink notes on endpapers and spine papers. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, blind-ruled spine; joints cracked.
Makers and roles
John Rastell (d.1536) William Rastell (1508-1565)