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A profitable booke of Maister Iohn Perkins felow of the inner temple treating of the lawes of Englande. Apud Richardum Tottell. Cum priuilegio.

  • Accession number

    83055886

  • Class

    SR - 94/

  • Language

    Romance Languages

  • Physical description

    [20], 168 leaves ; 8°.

  • Credit line

    CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

General note: An edition of: Perkins, John. Incipit perutilis tractatus magistri Johannis Parkins. Title page reads: "A PROFITABLE \ booke ..". Text in Law French. Imprint from colophon. Imprimatur at foot of title page: Cum priuilegio. Signatures: A-B8 C4, ²B-Y8. Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the signe of the hand starre, by Richard Tottil. 1567. Identified as STC 19635a on UMI microfilm. Copious contemporary MS. notes on front and back fly leaves, t.p. and throughout volume UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 19635 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1956, 1980. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 662:01). Ownership and custodial history: MS. notes by William Combe (1551-1610)?; donated by Ralph Leycester esq., Toft Hall, Knutsford, 1920 UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Contemporary tooled leather binding, damaged UK-SuSCL