John Rastell (or Rastall) (c. 1475 – 1536) was an English printer, author, member of parliament, and barrister. (From Wikipedia)
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Rastell, John, -1536: An Exposition of Certaine Difficult and Obscure Words, and Termes of the Lawes of This Realme, Newly Set Foorth and Augmented, Both in French and English, for the Helpe of Such Younge Students as are Desirous to Attaine the Knowledge of ye Same; Whereunto are Also Added the Olde Tenures (published anonymously, but attributed to John (and sometimes also to William) Rastell; London: R. Tottelli, 1579), contrib. by William Rastell
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Rastell, John, -1536: Celestina. English ([[London] : Iohes rastell me imprimi fecit], [ca. 1525]), also by Fernando de Rojas (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Rastell, John, -1536: Celestina; or, The tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea (G. Routledge & Sons, Limited;, 1908), also by Fernando de Rojas, H. Warner Allen, and James Mabbe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Exposicio[n]es t[er]mi[n]o[rum] legu[m] anglo[rum]. Et natura breuium cu[m] diuersib[us] casub[us] regulis et fundame[n]tis legum tam de libris Magistri Litteltoni qua[m] de aliis legum libris collectis [et] breuit[er] compilatis p[er] iuuinib[us] valde necessariis. The exposicions of [the] termys of [the] law of england [and] the nature of the writts with diuers rulys [and] principalles of the law as well out of the bokis of Mayster Littelton as of other bokis of the law gaderyd and breuely compyled for yong men very necessarye. ([Imprynted at London : In Chepe syde at Powles gate [by J. Rastell, [ca. 1523]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Expositiones terminorum Legum Anglorum. English and French. (London : printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare, 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English and Law French (At London : Printed by th'assignee of Charles Yetsweirt Esq. deceased. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis, 1595), also by William Rastell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Hundred mery talys. ([At end:-] Empryntyd at London, 1526) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Les termes de la ley: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of England, now in use, expounded and explained. (J. Johnson., 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained. Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never printed in any other impression. (Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling, 1721), also by William Rastell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Les termes de la ley, or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common lawes and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained. (Printed by J. Streater, for the Company of Stationers, 1659), also by William Rastell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Les termes de la ley: or Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained. Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented. With a new addition of aboue two hundred and fifty words ... (Printed by the assignes of Iohn More, 1636), also by William Rastell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: A mery dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe. ([Imprynted at London : In Paules churche yearde, at the sygne of the Sunne, by [J. Cawood for] Antony Kytson], Anno. M.CCCCC. lvii. [1557]), also by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: The nature of the four elements. (AMS Press, 1970) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: The nature of the four elements. (W. C. and Edinburgh, Issued for subscribers by T. C. &. E. C. Jack, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Nature of the four elements (Printed for the Percy Society by Richards, 1848), also by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Nature of the four elements (N. G. Elwert, 1903), also by Julius Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Nature of the four elements; date of composition & printing, c. 1510-20 (Jack, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: A new boke of purgatory whiche is a dyaloge [and] dysputacyon betwene one Comyngo an Almayne a Christen man, [and] one Gyngemyn a turke of Machoinett law, dysputynge by naturall reason and good philosophye, whether there be a purgatorye. which boke is deuyded into thre dyalogys. The fyrst dyaloge sheweth and treateth of the merueylous exystens of god. The seconde dyaloge treateth of the immortalyte of mannys soule. The thyrde dyaloge treateth of purgatory. ([[London] : Thus endeth this lytell treatyse, gedered and compyled by John Rastell. And also by the same John imprynted and fully fynyshed, the .x. day of October, ye yere of our lord god. M.CCCCC.XXX] [1530]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: A new iuterlude [sic] and a mery of the nature of the .iiii. element declarynge many proper poynt of phylosophy naturall, and of dyuers straunge landys and of dyuers straunge effects [and] causis, whiche interlude yf ye hole matter be playd wyl conteyne the space of an hour and a halfe, but yf le lyst ye may leue out muche of the sad mater as the messengers p[ar]te, and some of experyens p[ar]te [and] yet the matter wyl depend conuenyently, and than it wyll not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length. ([London : J. Rastell, 1520?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Now she that I louyd trewly beryth a full fayre face hath chosen her ... ([S.l. : J. Rastell, ca. 1525]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Of gentylnes and nobylyte A dyaloge betwen the marchaut the knyght and the plowman dysputyng who is a verey gentylman [et] who is a noble man and how men shuld come to auctoryte, compiled in maner of an enterlude with diuers toys [et] gestis addyd therto to make mery pastyme and disport. ([[London] : Joh[ann]es rastell me fieri fecit, [ca. 1525]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: The pastime of people, or, The chronicles of divers realms; and most especially of the realm of England (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1811), also by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rastell, John, -1536: The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio. ([London : Printed by John Rastell, 1530?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Rastell, John, -1536: Public General Acts. Abridgments ([[London] : [Enprynted in the chepesyde at the sygne of the mere mayde next to poulys gate the. xxii. day of Dece[m]ber in the. xix yere of the reyngne of oure souerayne lorde kinge Henry the. viii. Per me Iohannem Rastell, A.D.MDXXVII. [1527]]), also by England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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