Fitzherbert Sir Richard (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Large paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 128pp. Colour photographs and illustrations. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions. (4/4).

First Edition. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583]. First Edition of Fitzherbert's Important JP Manual Edited by Crompton Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. Crompton, Richard (fl. 1573-1599), Editor. [West, William (1568-1594), Compiler of Index]. Loffice et Aucthoritie de Iustices de Peace, In Part Collect per le Iades Tresreverend Iudge, Mounsieur A. Fitzherbert, Et ore Enlarge per Richard Crompton, Un Apprentice de la Common Ley, & Public Lan du Grace. 1583. A Que est Annex, Loffice de Vicountes, Bailiffes, Escheatours, Constables, Coroners, &c. Collect per le Dit Mounsier Fitzherbert. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583]. First edition edited by Crompton. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5"; 19 cm x 13 cm). [xxvi], 206 ff. Lacking Leaf Z1 (fol. 177). Recent period-style polished calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind ornaments, and gilt title and publication date to spine. Fore-edge of textblock features an early inked "CF". Endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, inkstains to margins of a few leaves, offsetting and light edgewear to initial few and final leaves. Annotations in later hand to front endleaf. Illegible early owner signature to head of leaf following title page, which is lightly soiled. $1,100. * This important Tudor-era handbook marks the first edition of Anthony Fitzherbert's classic manual to be fundamentally overhauled, expanded, and reorganized by the legal scholar Richard Crompton. Originally published in 1538, Fitzherbert's foundational manual for local magistrates was a staple of English governance, but Crompton's late-sixteenth-century revisions introduced a significantly more systematic, accessible methodology and inserted a vast amount of updated statutory material. A key distinguishing bibliographical feature unique to this first Crompton edition is the extensive index compiled by William West, which was entirely omitted from subsequent reprintings. Although this text would eventually be overtaken in popularity by William Lambard's Eirenarcha, it remains a critical monument in the development of early modern English justice manuals and administrative local law. Global census records confirm the scarcity of this Tottell imprint, with the ESTC and OCLC locating only seven copies total across North American law libraries. OCLC locates 6 copies in North American law libraries (Columbia, Library of Congress, San Francisco Law. London: Imprinted by Richarde Tottill, [1583] (illustrator).…