FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY. CROMPTON, RICHARD.

LOffice et Auctority de Iustices de Peace in Part collect per Sir...

      Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. [Crompton, Richard (fl. 1573-1599), Editor]. LOffice et Auctority de Iustices de Peace in Part Collect per Sir Anthonie Fitzherbert Chivaler, Iades un de les Iustices del Common Banke; et Ore Le Cinque Soits Inlarge per Richard Crompton un Apprentice de la Common Ley: et Imprimee Lan du grace 1606. A Que est Annex Loffice de Viconts, Bailifes, Escheators, Constables, Coroners, &c. Collect per le dit Mounsieur Fitzherbert in part. Et Auxy Certaine Presidents de Indictments, & Auters Choses. Sisueris Index, Miti sis Corde Memento, Dicito quae Possunt, Dicta Decere Senem. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1606. [v], 274 ff. Text in law French, Latin and English. [Bound with] A Summary Account of All the Statute-Laws of This Kingdom Now in Force, Made Against Jesuites, Seminary Priests, And Popish Recusants: Drawn Up for the Benefit of All Protestants. Done by a Protestant, To Inform Such of His Fellow-Subjects, that Are Ignorant of These Laws, and Would be Willing to do their Duties, Where, And When the Laws Enjoyn Them. London: Printed for John Starkey, 1673. 14 pp. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind panels to boards, rebacked in period style, hinges mended. Some rubbing to extremities, a few shallow scuffs to boards, corners bumped and somewhat worn. "F. Pollock/ ex dono Caroli F. Vachell/ nuper auditoris/ Lincoln's Inn/ 1886" to front pastedown. Toning occasional dampstaining, light soiling to title page, edgewear to a few leaves of second work, which is trimmed tightly with minor loss to headlines and side-notes in a few places, minor worming to margins of final few leaves and rear pastedown. Underlining and annotations in early hand in a few places, interior otherwise clean. A copy with an appealing association. $2,250. * Fitzherbert: Later edition; Summary, first edition in this form, originally published in 1666 with a different title. First printed in 1538, Fitzherbert's manual was issued eight more times; its final edition was printed in 1617. The first edition by Crompton was published in 1583. A significant improvement, it is arranged more systematically and has a great deal of additional material. Despite Crompton's efforts, this work was e