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First Edition of Pulton's Great Collection of Statutes Pulton, Ferdinando [1536-1618]. A Collection Of Sundrie Statutes, Frequent in Use: With Notes in the Margent, And References to the Booke Cases and Bookes of Entries and Registers, Where They be Treated of. Together with an Abridgement of the Residue Which be Expired, Repealed, Altered, And Worne Out of Use, Or Doe Concerne Privat Persons, Places, Or Things, And Not the Whole Commonwealth. Whereunto be Added Certaine Materiall Statutes, Never Printed Before in English. Also a Necessarie Table, Or Kalender, Is Annexed Hereunto, Expressing in Titles the Most Materiall Branches of Those Statutes in Use, And Practice. London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1618. [vi], 403, [1], 1031, [85] pp. Lacking final blank leaf and following endleaves and pastedown. Folio (13-1/2" x 8/3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and tie-holes to boards, raised bands to spine, recent repairs to spine ends and corners. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs, scratches and small faint stains to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, front pastedown loose, light soiling, minor creases, dampstaining, and moderate edgewear to preliminaries and final few leaves. Title printed within woodcut architectural border. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to head of gutter at rear of text block and upper portions of rear endleaves, finger smudges to a few leaves, section of fore-edge torn from leaf Bbbb (pp. 841-842), but laid in to adjacent gutter. An impressive volume. $2,750. * First edition. Pulton was a commoner of Brasenose College, Oxford, a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and a member of Lincoln's Inn. As a Catholic Pulton was not allowed to practice, so he devoted his energies to editing the statutes. He published An Abstract of All the Penal Statutes in 1560 and A Kalender, Or Table, Comprehending the Effect of All the Statutes in 1606. A Collection of Sundrie Statutes was his magnum opus. Though it had its defects, it was, as Holdsworth notes, "an advance upon all former editions of the statutes. He set a new standard to the makers of these editions, to which subsequent editors made at least an attempt to conform. We shall see that this standard was a good deal higher that that either aimed at or attained by those who edited the Reports of.
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