Pulton, Fernando; Manby Thomas. Illus. by A Collection of all Statutes Now in Use. 1670

A Collection Of Sundrie Statutes, Frequent in Use 1632

      Pulton, Fernando [1536- 1618]. A Collection Of Sundrie Statutes, Frequent in Use: With Notes in the Margent, and References to the Booke Cases and Books of Entries and Registers, Where They be Treated of. Together with an Abbridgement of the Residue Which be Expired, Repealed, Altered, and Worne Out of Use, or Doe Concerne Private Persons, Places, or Things, And Not the Whole Common-wealth. Whereunto be Added Certaine Materiall Statutes, Never Printed Before in English. Also a Necessary Table, Or Kalendar, Is Annexed Hereunto, Expressing in Titles the Most Materiall Branches of Those Statutes in Use, and Practice. London: Printed by M. Flesher, I. Haviland, & R. Young, 1632. [vi], 1464 (i.e. 1460), [86] pp. Title printed within woodcut architectural border. [Bound with] Manby, Thomas. [Pulton, Ferdinando]. A Collection of the Statutes Made in the Reigns of King Charles the I. and King Charles the II.: With the Abridgment of Such as Stand Repealed or Expired. London: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, 1667. [xvi], 325, [6] pp. Woodcut frontispiece coat of arms. Folio (13" x 8-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light soiling to title pages, some toning, interior otherwise fresh. * Pulton: Third edition; Manby: first edition. Pulton was a commoner of Brasenose College, Oxford, a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and a member of Lincoln's Inn. As a Catholic Pulton was not allowed to practice, so he devoted his energies to editing the statutes. He published An Abstract of All the Penal Statutes in 1560 and A Kalendar, Or Table, Comprehending the Effect of All the Statutes in 1606. A Collection of Sundrie Statutes, his magnum opus, was first published in 1618. Though it had its defects, "it is clear that Pulton's edition was an advance upon all former editions of the statutes. He set a new standard to the makers of these editions, to which subsequent editors made at least an attempt to conform. We shall see that this standard was a good deal higher that that either aimed at or attained by those who edited the Reports of this period.": Holdsworth, A History.