La graunde abridgement / collecte & escrie per le iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, chiualier.

[Place of publication not identified] : In ædibus Richardi Tottell duodecimo die Octobris, 1576. Cum priuilegio.

Abr B783 1576

2 volumes in 1. ; 25 cm

(OCoLC)42984016

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, within Temple barre at the signe of the hande and starre by Richarde Tottyl the xii of October. Anno. Domini. 1576
At head of title: 1576
Volume 2 has title: ... La secounde part du Graunde abridgement, collecte & escrie per le iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, chiualier ..
Titles within architectural border, with quotation at base: Ne moy reproues sauns cause, car mon entent est de bon amoure, and Tottell's initials (R.T.) at foot of base
"This is an abstract of the Year-books down to the writer's own time, and is principally based on the work of Fitzherbert bearing the same title ... Contains also some valuable original matter ... A selection from the 'Abridgement,' comprising the more recent cases which Broke had added to Fitzherbert's collection, was published in 1578, under the title of 'Ascuns novell cases de les ans et temps le roy Henry VIII, Edward VI, et la roygne Mary ...'." --Dict. nat. biog

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