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Two parts in one volume.Illustrated title pages in decorative woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials. Thick 8vo. Modern brown morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottell, 1576. Second Edition of Brooke's abstract of the year-books down to the writer's own time. (Sweet and Maxwell I, p. 187. STC 3828; Beale R471 and R472.) It was based principally on Fitzherbert's work, but contains much new material. Brooke's work fully abridges the Year Books of the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He abridges over 20,000 cases under alphabetical headings. Coke considered it "a worthy and painful work and an excellent repertory or table for the Year Books of the law." A little-known Shakespearean association. The closing lines of Shakespeare's Prologue to the last act of Henry V are as follows: "Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance / After your thoughts, straight back again in France." "Then brook abridgement" was Shakespeare's hidden joke for the… Read More

1586. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1586.. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1586. Preferred Edition of "An Excellent Repertory or Table for the Year Books" Brooke, Sir Robert [?-1558]. La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte & Escrie per le Iudge Tresreverend Syr Robert Brooke Chivaler, Nadgairs Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1586. [And] La Secounde Part du Graunde Abridgement.... [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1586. [iv], 351; [i], 2-328 ff. Collates complete. Two parts in one. Small folio (11" x 7-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. A few nicks to spine, light rubbing to corners. Titles printed within handsome woodcut architectural borders. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining and dampspotting in a few places, some edgewear and crinkling to preliminaries and endleaves, crude repair to lower corner of F. 141 of Part I with no loss to text, small… Read More

1576. London: Tottell, 1576. Two parts in one. Complete. London: Tottell, 1576. Two parts in one. Complete. "A Worthy and Painful Work" Brooke, Sir Robert [d.1558]. La Graunde Abridgement, Collecte & Escrie per le Iudge Tresreverend Syr Robert Brooke Chivalier, Nadgairs Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottell, 1576. [iv], 351 ff. [And] La Secounde Part du Graunde Abridgment....London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottell, 1576. [i], 328 ff. Small folio (9-1/4" x 6-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind fillets, gilt title and gilt publication date to spine, hinges mended. A few minor nicks and scratches, corners lightly bumped, later stamp (reading "Earl of Ellenborough's Heirlooms," with a book number) to front pastedown. Title pages printed within woodcut architectural borders. Moderate toning to interior, (very) faint dampstaining to head of text block at gutter and final few leaves after Fol. 278 of the Secounde Part, contemporary… Read More