Institutions (1601)

Creator

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Identifier

KD 600 .I57 1601

Creation Date

1601

Description

Institutions or Principall Grounds of the Lawes and Statutes of England. London: Printed by Thomas Wight, 1601.

Written for the beginning student and focusing mainly on issues of property, Institutions was first published in 1538. A popular work even amongst practitioners, it was repeatedly republished with as many as twenty editions appearing into the seventeenth century. This copy includes the bookplate of William Harrison of Salmesbury Hall, Preston, Lancashire on the front pastedown and earlier owners' signatures to the front endleaf and title page.

Front pastedown, with the bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.A. (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London) in Institutions or Principall Grounds of the Lawes and Statutes of England, 1601, available as an additional file below.

Inscriptions, first front free endpaper in Institutions or Principall Grounds of the Lawes and Statutes of England, 1601, available as an additional file below.

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