Shelfmark
Fn.7.08
Main entry--corporate name
Uniform title
[Laws, etc.]
Title
An exact abridgment of all the statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta. Begun by Edmund Wingate of Grays-Inn Esq; and since continued under their proper titles alphabetically down to the year 1689. In this impression the year of the King, and the chapter of every act of Parliament have been compared with the statute-book at large; wherein many hundreds of false references are corrected with great exactness and care, to prevent the reader's being misled as he hath been in the former editions. With a more compleat and exact table then was before.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by the assigns of the King's printers. And by the assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires and to be sold by Charles Harper, William Crooke, and Richard Tonson at the Flower-de-luce in Fleetstreet, at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Bar, and within Grays-Inn-Gate next Grays-Inn-Lane., 1689.
Physical description
[4], 224, 227-696, [58] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A² B-3B⁸.
Note
Text continuous despite pagination.
Note
Title within double ruled borders.
Note
"Printed ... printers" joined by right brace, and "And ... Esquires" joined by left brace in imprint.
Note
With advertisements on final page.
Note
With numerous errors in pagination.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E911
Citation/references note
ESTC, R41984
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. inscription of Thomas Ryder on title page.
Binding
Contemporary calf binding; border of blind double fillets with tulip ornament in corners; four raised bands; red leather spine label; ms. edge titles at head and tail of fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Title page torn with loss of first line of title.
Copy-specific note
Library copy as issued with [8] pages of advertisements for "Books printed for, and sold by W. Crooke, at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1693", the first leaf signed O.
Subject
Statutes Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Session laws Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Tonson, Richard bookseller.
Added entry--name
Crooke, William bookseller.
Added entry--name
Harper, Charles, fl. 1670 - 1709 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B42542