Pulton, Ferdinando, editor

A collection of sundry statutes, requent in use: with notes in the margent and references to the book cases and books of entries and registers...Together with an abridgement of the residue which be expired, repealed, altered and worn out of use...Also a n

      London:: M. Flesher, J. Haviland, and R. Young assignes of J. More,, 1636 [1635 in colophon].. 18th c. calf, lacks front cover, worn, dampstains, some damage to 2 last leaves. As is.. Thick Folio.. Head-pieces, decorated initials Ferdinando Pulton (1536-1618), a Cambridge scholar of Christ's College, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1559 but never called to the bar because he was Catholic. As a result, he employed himself chiefly in editing the statutes and was the first private person to do so. STC 9330. ESTC s121411. Sweet & Maxwell I,555:35. Marvin 595. OCLC 6309267.