Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey
NEW JERSEY. LAWS
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NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government of the said Province, to the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Second. Philadelphia: William and Andrew Bradford, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for the Province of New-Jersey, 1732. Fol. [14], 281 p. Mid-to-late nineteenth-century full vellum, gilt, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, bound by Pawson & Nicholson of Philadelphia for a private Philadelphia law library, with their name in gold on the front cover and a stamp on the title page. Vellum very slightly cupped, text with scattered foxing and occasional light browning, as usual in American books of this period, but a remarkably handsome, almost crisp copy. With the eighteenth-century semi-calligraphic signatures of William Read. The first official compilation of the laws of New Jersey, prepared by John Kinsey at the direction of the general assembly and universally referred to as "Kinsey's Laws." John Kinsey (1693-1750) was a Quaker and speaker of the general assembly. A lovely copy of a very scarce book--this is only the third copy we have offered for sale in fifty years of specializing in New Jerseyana. For a detailed account, see J. J. Felcone, The Printed Assembly Minutes and Laws of New Jersey, 1703-1732: A Bibliographical Study (Princeton, 2016), L-1732.1. Evans 3578; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 153; ESTC W4566. Seller Inventory # 15643
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Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey .
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Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
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NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of Our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January 1776 . By Samuel Allinson. Burlington: Isaac Collins, 1776. Folio. viii, 493, [1], 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, [1], 15 p. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, very skillfully executed in period style. The usual foxing and browning present in all copies, occasional minor spotting, else a very good, desirable copy in a handsome and correct period-style binding. A compilation of all the laws in force in New Jersey in 1776. Though begun several years earlier, publication was delayed by Governor William Franklin's constant quarrels with the assembly, the outbreak of hostilities, and, finally, as Allinson notes in his preface, the inability to obtain sufficient paper, ". the Want of [which] stop'd the Press several Weeks at sundry Times, until more could be manufactured." The quality of the paper varied considerably, and all copies exhibit differing degrees of foxing and browning from gathering to gathering. There are several contemporary manuscript corrections, also present in all copies and probably done in the printer's shop. For a detailed account of the evolution and printing history of Allinson's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 1424, and Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800, 214. Evans 14911; ESTC W6511. Seller Inventory # 3532
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NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government . to this Present Time . By Samuel Nevill. [Philadelphia]: William Bradford, 1752. Sm. fol. [4], 507 p. [with:] The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Year 1753 . where the first volume ends, to the Year 1761 . By Samuel Nevill . Volume the Second. Woodbridge: James Parker, 1761. Sm. fol. [4], x, [2], 368, [4], 369-401, [1], 56, 64 p. Contemporary sheep (v.1) and contemporary reversed sheep (v.2), both very skillfully rebacked in period style. First two leaves of v.1 neatly guarded in the blank margins, the usual foxing and browning common to early American paper, else an unusually nice set in contemporary bindings. The second compilation of the laws of New Jersey (following that of John Kinsey in 1732), assembled by Samuel Nevill with the assistance in the first volume of Philip Kearny. The second volume is the first law compilation to be printed in New Jersey, James Parker having set up the colony's first permanent printing press at Woodbridge in 1754. For a detailed study of the evolution and printing of Nevill's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 1421 and 1423, and Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800, 59. Evans 6893, 8680, 8947; ESTC W14077, W14078. Seller Inventory # 3475
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