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GLANVILLE, RANULF DE, attributed to. Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie. [3], 113 [i. e., 116], [17] leaves, including blank P8. 8vo, modern calf with old calf covers laid down; 2 small wormholes in blank upper margins, few early marginalia, gutter of last page slightly adhered to facing endpaper minimally affecting text. Birmingham Law Society stamp on title and elsewhere in volume, their bookplate on front pastedown and title verso. London: Richard Tottel, 1554
first edition of the earliest extant treatise on English law, dating from the later 12th century. "The Tractatus was not only the earliest legal classic of England, but the earliest systematic law treatise that appeared after the dissolution of the Roman empire, with the exception of Gratian's Decretum (1139)"-Sarton II, 467-68. Beale T365; STC 11905.
