{"product_id":"magna-carta-magna-charta-cum-statutis-tum-antiquis-tum-recentibus-maximopere-animo-tenendis-imprinted-at-london-by-richard-tottell-1576","title":"[MAGNA CARTA] MAGNA CHARTA CUM STATUTIS, TUM ANTIQUIS, TUM RECENTIBUS, MAXIMOPERE ANIMO TENENDIS... IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY RICHARD TOTTELL 1576","description":"\u003cp\u003e[MAGNA CARTA]\u003cstrong\u003e Magna Charta, cum statutis, tum antiquis, tum recentibus, maximopere, animo tenendis, nunc demum ad vnum, tipis ædita, per Richardum Tottill.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anno domini. 1576. Cum Privilegio ad Imprimendum Solum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eREPRINT. Leather-bound; hardcover; small octavo (150 x 100 x 35 mm); ff. [8], 247, [1]. Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-2H⁸. Leaves [par.]8 and 2H8 are blank. Imprint from colophon: \"London in Fleetestreete within Temple barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottel, the 8 day of March, 1576.\" Printed in black letter; text Latin or Law French, then in English after fol.119; woodcut capitals and historiated initials; indexes. Beautifully bound in contemporary blind-stamped \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003ecalf; initial and terminal blanks present. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. The original binding is well-preserved, remaining tight and secure with a little erosion to the spine ends. Interior very lightly toned, a few old marginal notes, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003evariously inscribed in ink for 'Tho Weston', 'John Dallender 1607' and others, indistinct signature to title, front endpapers slightly worn, final textual leaf fol.247 apparently trimmed at the fore edge. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Magna Carta (1215) stands as one of the truly great historic legal documents of Britain and the western world, leading directly to the establishment of constitutional government. Famously, thanks to the English barons, a reluctant King John was forced to accept certain liberties of his subjects and restraint of his powers within the law. Although at first renounced, amended versions were confirmed and reconfirmed by later monarchs throughout the Medieval period. Magna Carta was first printed around 1508 by Richard Pynson, however, it was his contemporary Richard Tottell who printed more editions of Magna Carta than any other 16th-century printer having been awarded a life grant by Elizabeth I to print law books. His first printing of an expanded Magna Carta came in 1556, it is regarded as 'the most known'; it varies from Pynson’s (and also Berthelet’s) printings in some readings of the text of the statutes, and it is enlarged by the addition of “certain statutes with other needful things taken out of old copies examined by the rolls,” printed at the end of the first part. Further editions by Tottell followed in 1576 and 1587.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1576 printing, with omissions and additions (the additions, selected through to the fourteenth regnal year of Elizabeth I), adds to and improves upon William Rastell's important collection, and includes the Charta de Foresta of Henry III, the Statutes of Merton and Marlebridge, the Statutes of Edward I and other statutes which are digested by topic specifically designed for practicing lawyers and judges, and includes English statutes in law French. Among the most notorious statutes are those of Edward concerning Jews, including the Edict of Expulsion (1290), which banished them from England. Other statutes relate to women, wills, forcible entry, \"Fraudulent Deedes\" and other topics. There is a new preface subsequently used in later editions. The title translates as: The Magna Carta edited with its laws in old and then recent form with especial care, then finally put together as one unit by Richard Tottill in the year 1576. [Beale S18; STC (2nd ed.), 9281; MMBR (1812) 336; Maxwell 350; ESTC S101094].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57508294459767,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_4856_23101bcc-73bd-477c-bcf4-fed75e91b630.jpg?v=1790986951","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/products\/magna-carta-magna-charta-cum-statutis-tum-antiquis-tum-recentibus-maximopere-animo-tenendis-imprinted-at-london-by-richard-tottell-1576","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}