Les Plees del Coron [with] An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative..

1583. London 1583 & 1568 2 works in 1.. London 1583 & 1568 2 works in 1. Staunford's Classic Works on Criminal Law and the Rights of the Crown Staunford, Sir William [1509-1558]. Les Plees del Coron, Divisees in Plusors Titles & Comon Lieux. Per Queux Home Pluis Redement & Plenairement Trovera Quelque Chose que il Quira, Touchant les Dits Plees. Dernierment Corrigee Avecques un Table Parfaicte des Choses Notables Contenus en Ycelle, Nouvelment Reveu & Corrigee. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, [1583]. [xii], 196 [i.e. 198] ff. [Bound with] Staunford, Sir William. An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative Collected Out of the Great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and Other Olde Writers of the Lawes of Englande, By the Right Woorshipfull Sir William Staunford Knight, Lately One of the Justices of the Queenes Maiesties Court of Comon Pleas: Whereunto is Annexed the Proces to the Same Prerogative Appertaining. [London: Imprynted...by Rychard Tottel], 1568. [v], 6-85 ff. Leaves F3-8 and H3-8 transposed due to contemporary binding error, text complete. Quarto (7" x 5"). Recent calf, blind tooling across joints, raised bands and gilt title to spine, endleaves renewed. Title page of Plees printed within woodcut architectural border. Fading to spine, moderate toning to interior, small wormhole through f. 165 of Plees with no loss to legibility, small hole to title page of Kinges Prerogative, clean tear to its leaf I1 (f. 64) mended at foot on recto and affecting text with no loss to legibility, early numbers and owner signature ("Woodcock"?) to title page and brief annotations (case citations and other references, in at least two hands, some affected by trimming) and underlining to a few text leaves of Plees, early annotation (a quotation from Psalm 15) and two owner signatures ("Saunders" and "J. Hart"?) to title page of Kinges Prerogative. $1,250. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION** * Plees: fifth edition; Kinges Prerogative: second edition. Building on Bracton, the Year Books and especially Fitzherbert's Graunde Abridgement, Staunford sought to digest the authorities and principles of the law even further so "learned men wyth lesse payns might compyle the thyng that shoold bee so easy" (Preface to Kinges Prerogative). First published in 1557, (Inventory #: 81634)