Shelfmark
Gi.7.28
Author
Title
A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvilles, very profitable to be vnderstoode of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse acceptable, aswell for the rarenesse of the worke, as for the easinesse of the stile, and method: compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and civill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundry customes, as well generall as particular, not impertinent thereto: besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected, especially of Justinianists, or young students of the ciuill law: with two tables, the one analyticall, describing the generall order of the whole treatise. The other alphabeticall, disclosing the particular contents thereof, that in the beginning; this in the end of the booke. Newly corrected and augmented with sundry principall additions by the industrie of Henry Swinburn, iudge of the prerogatiue court of the Lord Archibishop of Yorke, and Bachelour of the Ciuill Lawe..
Varying form of title
Briefe treatise of testaments and last willes
Publication, distribution, etc.
Printed at London : [By William Stansby? and Thomas Snodham] for the Companie of Stationers., 1611..
Physical description
[16], 7, 9-53, 51-107, 109-214, 221-292, 292-358, [15] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to)
Note
Signatures: A⁸-3B⁸.
Note
There are 2 leaves numbered 104.
Note
Apparently Stansby printed through quire 2F; Snodham did 2G to end (STC).
Note
First leaf is blank.
Note
Includes head-pieces, decorative initials, printed marginal notes.
Note
With a final errata leaf.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S118063
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23548
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
An armorial coat of arms has been mostly covered by Burrell's label; unidentified.
Provenance
Ms. note on rear flyleaf: "Purchased from W Brough[?]ton Birmingham Oct. 15th 1917 £1".
Binding
?17th-century armorial binding; calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; the centrepiece is a blind-stamped, unidentified royal coat of arms; metal clasps intact. Spine with four raised bands, undecorated. Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: first blank flyleaf ripped, volume ends with leaf 333, but includes final errata leaf (unnumbered).
Copy-specific note
The paper of the rear pastedown and missing blank leaves has the watermark "Unbleached Arnold".
Copy-specific note
17th-century ms. notes on front and rear flyleaves.
Copy-specific note
Cut-out bookseller's catalogue entry for this volume, priced at 20 shillings, glued on rear flyleaf.
Subject
Wills Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Stansby, William, active 1597 - 1638 printer.
Added entry--name
Snodham, Thomas, ? - d. 1625 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51268