[Rastell, John]:: Les Termes de la Ley: or, certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of this Realm, now in Use, expounded and explained. Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of many other Words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the Statute Law of Great Britain, never Printed in any other Impression

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[Rastell, John]: : Les Termes de la Ley: or, certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of this Realm, now in Use, expounded and explained. Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of many other Words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the Statute Law of Great Britain, never Printed in any other Impression

8vo. pp. [iv], 592. Parallel French and English text. Minor waterstaining to upper fore-corner. Contemporary calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked with modern label. Twentieth century ownership inscription to front pastedown.

Last and best edition of the first English law dictionary. Composed in French by John Rastell and first published in 1527 it was translated into English by his son William and was subsequently revised and augmented. Elizabeth Nutt, printer, publisher and the, matriarch of the London pamphlet trade

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