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Plowden (Edmund). 1578. Les Commentaries, ou Reportes de divers cases esteants matters en ley, et de les Arguments sur yceux, en les temps des Raygnes le Roye Edwarde le size, le Roigne Mary, le Roy et Roigne Phillip et Mary, et le Roigne Elizabeth [part 2: ... Cy ensuont certeyne Cases Reportes], 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Richard Tottel, 1578 [part 2: 1584], title-page with woodcut border to each part, woodcut initials throughout (most on criblé ground), full-page woodcut table of consanguinity to folio 451 verso, text mainly in blackletter, first title-page closedly trimmed at foot, minor worm-track to foot of first few quires, quickly diminishing, small spill-burn in part 1 leaf 5H2 touching side-note verso, section of rear free endpaper torn away, light silverfish damage to lower margin of last 2 leaves, a few other trivial marks, retaining blank leaves 5H6 in part 1, 2T6 and [superscript 2]A6 in part 2, and A1 in 'Un report fait per un uncertaine authour ...' (all apparently original), occasional marginalia (in a later hand, at one point referring to Blackstone), later Italian manuscript leaves used as pastedowns, 17th-century blind-ruled calf, loss to foot of spine, folio (27.6 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) 'Jan 28 1668 I doo warrant this Book perfect, Willm [?]Plaids' (inscription to front free endpaper). 2) 'H Mitton 1675' (inscription to front free endpaper). 3) 'E Locke' (inscription to rear pastedown). 4) Private Collection, Shropshire. Beale R485, R486a; ESTC S115947, S115951; STC 20041, 20046.7; Sweet & Maxwell I p. 306.95-6. Second editions of both parts: the first originally appeared in 1571, and the second in 1579. Plowden's Commentaries 'decisively broke out of the older year-book tradition' (ODNB). This second edition of the first part contains additional cases and an analytical index by Recorder William Fleetwood.