Author: Plowden, Edmund
Title: Les Comentaries, ou les Reportes de Edmunde Plowden un apprentice de le comen Ley, de dyuers cases esteantes matters en ley, & de les Argumentes fur yceux, en les temps des Raygnes le Roye Edwarde le size [through] Elizabeth. S.T.C. 20040; Beale R484
Description: London In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Octobris.24. Cum priuilegio 1571. Early calf, rubbed, rebacked, original spine laid down, title a bit dusty and just trimmed, else very fresh with a manuscript index and some notations. ¶ First edition of the first part of Plowden's "Commentaries", the reports which mark the break with the Year Books and provided (in the words of Dr. Baker) "the conception of a law report as a reasoned exposition of the law, with learned gloss"

Keywords: reports of cases