La Graunde Abridgement Collecte Par Le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert

Fitzherbert, Anthony [1470-1538]. La Graunde Abridgement Collecte par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert, Dernierment Conferre Ouesque la Copye Escript et per ceo Correcte, Ouesque le Nombre del Sueil, Per Quel Facilement Poies Trover les Cases cy Abrydges en les Livers Dans, Novelment Annote: Iammais Devaunt Imprimes. [And] La Secounde Part du Graund Abridgment... [And] Tabula. Cy Ensuit la Table pur Trover les Titles. London: Richard Tottell, 1577. 1 Volume. [ii], 342 [i.e. 341]; [ii], 265; [ii], 66 fols. First and second parts of abridgment have title pages. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a New introduction by David J. Seipp, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-876-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-876-8. Cloth (9" x 12"). New. $395.* Second Tottell edition. One of the most imposing volumes in the history of English law, it has abridgements of over 14,000 cases under 260 titles in alphabetical order. First printed around 1514, it was the first serious attempt to arrange the law systematically, and served as a model to such writers as Brooke and Rolle. According to Boersma, Fitzherbert accomplished "nothing less that to abridge all notes of significant cases at common law." Graham and Heckel refer to this work as the "book that 'made' the Common Law.": Law Library Journal 51 [1957]: 100-101. Cowley, A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digest, Dictionaries and Indexes to the Year 1800 32. Beale, Bibliography of Early English Law Books R 466, R 467, R 468.