Plowden | Les commentaires, London, 1599, later calf, Robert Harley's copy

Edmund Plowden

Les commentaires, ou reports... de divers cases esteant matters en ley, & des argyments sur yceaux (La second part...). London: Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1599; Charles Yetsweirt, 1594

2 volumes in one, folio (272 x 185mm.), titles within woodcut border, woodcut initials, with blank leaf at end of first volume, woodcut diagram in volume 2 (fol. 451v), later seventeenth-century calf with Harley's name and arms stamped in gilt on covers, spine gilt in compartments, slight damage to second leaf from Harley stamp, upper cover detached, spine chipped, lower joint split

THE HARLEIAN COPY. A crisp copy internally.

LITERATURE

ESTC S115960 & S115955; STC 20045 & 20047

PROVENANCE

Robert Harley (1661-1724), earl of Oxford, armorial bookplate from Bram[p]ton Castle and signature stamped in gilt on title-page; J. Fisher, Inner Temple, signature on flyleaf; Cornwell House, stamp on flyleaf 

Harley's library was bought by the bookseller Thomas Osborne who issued catalogues from 1743 onwards, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae; a copy of this work is listed in volume 2, no. 10848.