A Profitable Booke of Mr Iohn Perkins, Sometimes Fellow of the Inner.

Perkins, John

Publication Date: 1642

About this Item

London, 1642. 1st ed in English. First English-Language Edition of A Profitable Booke Perkins, John [d. 1545]. A Profitable Booke of Mr. Iohn Perkins, Sometimes Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England. And Now Translated Out of French into English for the Benefit of Young Students, And Others. London: Printed by R.B. for M. Wallbanke, 1642. [xxxii], 1-272; 271-388 pp. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to spine, hinges, upper-outside corner of rear board, a nick to rear board and head of spine mended. A few scratches and tiny stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, a few nicks to board edges and spine, corners bumped and somewhat worn. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to fore-edges of several leaves near rear of text, faint oil stains to a few other leaves. $650. * First edition fully in English. A popular work during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries that was held in high regard by Coke, Perkins' Profitable Booke was first published in 1528 with a Latin title and went through numerous editions in both Law French and English. The English title was adopted beginning in 1555, but the main text remained in Law French, often with a Latin preface, until 1642, when liberalizing trends in legal publishing and the work's growing popularity made an English edition desirable. Devoted mostly to the land law as developed in the Year Books, it is divided into the following topics: grants, deeds, feoffments, exchanges, dower, curtesy, wills, devises, surrenders, reservations and conditions. It was one of the first practical guidebooks for students and practitioners of the law and heralded an expansion in the scope of legal literature in England (Harvey). Harvey, The Law Emprynted and Englysshed 82-83. English Short-Title Catalogue R005477.

Seller Inventory # 78648

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Profitable Booke of Mr Iohn Perkins, Sometimes Fellow of the Inner.
• Publication Date: 1642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: London, 1642. 1st ed in English
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Antiquarian & Scholarly