Lot 263
[MAGNA CARTA]. Magna Charta, cum statutis, tum antiquis, tum recentribus, maximopere, animo tenendis nunc demum ad unum… 1576.
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[MAGNA CARTA]. Magna Charta, cum statutis, tum antiquis, tum recentribus, maximopere, animo tenendis nunc demum ad unum… [London: Richard Tottell], 1576.

8vo (133 x 101 mm). Text in English, Latin, and French with two tables of statutes in front and woodcut initials (final leaf disbound but present, very light toning, title page reinserted on new stub at gutter). Contemporary full calf (extremities gently rubbed with a few minor scuffs). Provenance: Contemporary unidentified ownership signatures.

A total of eighteen different editions of the Magna Carta were printed throughout the sixteenth century, with all but one edition printed in the latter half by Richard Tottel (d. 1594). The son of a former mayor of Exeter, Tottel was indentured to a printer of law books and would later make the printing of legal works his primary focus. Beale S-19; ESTC S92154.

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