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BROOKE, Sir Robert (d.1558). 1576. La graunde abridgement, collecte & escrie per ... Syr Robert Brooke. London: Richard Tottell, 1576.

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BROOKE, Sir Robert (d.1558). 1576. La graunde abridgement, collecte & escrie per ... Syr Robert Brooke. London: Richard Tottell, 1576.

2 volumes in one, 4° (242 x 150mm.) Titles within woodcut historiated and architectural border [McKerrow and Ferguson 196], black letter. (Title of vol. I a little frayed at outer and lower margins, lower margins lightly dampstained throughout, other margins lightly browned). Contemporary English calf, double gilt and double blind-stamped borders round sides, the inner border with hatched fleuron cornerpieces, oval decoration at centre flanked by initials RB (rebacked, lacks ties, covers a little rubbed). Provenance: RB (possibly his deleted signature on title [Richard ?] and dated note of purchase 'pr[etium] xxiiijs iiijd 1576').

Second edition of Brooke's abstract of the year-books down to the writer's own time, based principally on Fitzherbert's work bearing the same title. Coke considered it 'a worthy and painsful work and an excellent repertory or table for the Year Books of the law.' Beale R471 & R472; Sweet and Maxwell I, p. 187; STC 3828.
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